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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Hast thou an arm like God, and dost thou thunder with a voice like Him? 6. Because blessed Job transcended in merits the race of men, his merciful Creator and Teacher challenges him to consider the resemblance of His greatness, in order that, having known the great dissimilarity, he may keep himself down in humility. 7. But when a voice and arm are spoken of in God, we must take the greatest care that our mind imagines nothing corporeal in Him. …
Thomas Aquinas
Therefore, the Lord, in accusing Job, proposes the excellence of God over men, and this excellence is indeed manifested in his effects. But since now it is a question of the comparison of justice which properly is not perceived in irrational things, to show divine excellence he considers the effects which God works in rational creatures. These effects can be considered in two ways. In one way according to the operation of his power, and as to this he says, "If you have an arm like God," for "the arm" expresses the divine power. …
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