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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 20. The wicked man feels proud all his days. LITERAL AND MORAL INTERPRETATION The Elect also are apt to feel pride in some of their thoughts and actions. But because they are Elect persons, they cannot feel pride all their days, because before they end their lives, they turn their hearts from self-exaltation to the fearing of humility. But 'the wicked man feels pride all his days,' in that he so brings his life to an end, that he never departs from self-exalting. …
Thomas Aquinas
After he has gotten the attention of his listener, he then tries to answer the arguments which Job had used in debate. He understood Job to have said two things in these arguments. First, Job was living in anguish and fear, as though God pursued him and laid traps for him because he said, "Why do you think of me as your enemy?" (13:24) and "Have you observed all my paths?" (13:27) Second, because he believed that Job doubted his own ruin when he said, "Do you write bitter things against me and want to consume me for the sins of my …
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