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Job 28:21

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

And is kept close also from the fowls of the air. [MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION] For in Holy Scripture 'birds' are sometimes given to be understood in a bad sense, and sometimes in a good sense. Since by the birds of the air occasionally the powers of the air are denoted, being hostile to the settled purposes of good men. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He shows this source excels all human cognition, and so he then says, "She is hidden from the eyes of all the living," because, "the fount of wisdom is the word of God on high." (Qoheleth 1:5) There have been some augurs of omens who believed that certain birds of prophecy participated in a certain effect of wisdom over men, and in as much as they believed men could know the future of the future from them. …

Commentary on Job ↗