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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. The sons went to feast at their houses, when the Apostles as preachers, in the different regions of the world, served the banquet of virtue to hearers as it were to eaters. And hence it is said to those very sons concerning the hungering multitude, Give ye them to eat. …
Thomas Aquinas
To praise Job even more the discipline of his house is described next, which was free from those vices which wealth usually produces. For very often great wealth in fact produces discord and so Genesis says that Abraham and Lot could not live together to avoid the quarrelling which arises from an abundance of possessions (cf. Gen.13). Also, men who have a lot of possessions, while they love what they possess in an inordinate way, frequently use them more sparingly. …
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