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Job 37:3

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Gregory the Dialogist

He himself considereth under all the heavens, and His light is over the ends of the earth. As if it were plainly said; He who rules over the highest things, forsakes not even the most remote. Because His watchful rule is so directed towards the greatest concerns, as not to be kept from those which are little. For He Who is every where present, and every where equal, is not unlike Himself, even in unlike circumstances. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

To preclude the error that God does not have another light higher than the corporeal light of heaven, he says, "Above all the heavens he examines," as if he should say: His vision is not below heaven but above it. Moreover, one can only see something in some light, because, "everything which is clear is light." (Eph. …

Commentary on Job ↗