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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. 'The days of feasting are gone,' when the ministrations of preaching are brought to an end; and when the feasts were ended, Job offered an holocaust for his sons, in that our Redeemer besought the Father in behalf of the Apostles, when they returned from preaching. …
Thomas Aquinas
Just as frugality and concord flourished in Job's house, so a holy solicitude for the purity which riches frequently destroy or diminish flourished in Job himself. As Deuteronomy says, "But he waxed fat, and kicked," and further on, "and he forsook the God who made him, etc." (32:18) He was so solicitous for his purity that he removed himself completely from those things which could defile it. …
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