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Job 29:2

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Who would give me that I might be as in the months past? For Holy Church being borne down with sorrows is to say many like things. For it shall be for her to be besieged with such great tribulations, as with great sighing to long for these times, which we undergo with great sorrow. So then let her say, let her say in the voice of blessed Job, Who would give me that I might be as in the months past? …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX ↗