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What the Fathers say

Job 15:18

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Ver. 18. Wise men confess, and do not hide their fathers. And at once they leap out in praise of them, and boast that they had been as it were the only rulers of the Church. Hence it is yet further added, Unto whom alone the earth was given, and the stranger passed not among them. They think that 'the earth was given to their fathers alone,' in that the masters of their erroneous teaching alone really had rule in the Church. And who is termed 'the stranger,' but the Apostate Angel? …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Besides, I will not be embarrassed to tell you what I have heard from others, putting them forward as my authority, because "Wise men confess and do not hide their fathers," from whom they learned wisdom. It is truly the lot of the ignorant and the proud to attribute what they have learned from others to themselves.

Commentary on Job ↗