Gregory the Dialogist

If I was minded to go to them, I sat chief. And when I sat as a king with an army standing round, nevertheless I was the Comforter of those that mourned. Because in the heart of lost sinners, the actions of the flesh are in the first place, and of the soul in the second, surely in their thoughts Christ 'sits' not 'first' but 'last.' But each of the Elect, because above all others they mind the things that are eternal, and if there be any things of a temporal kind, they manage them with an after and the least concern; to whom it is …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Third, he shows that he was not immoderate in honors, because he did not even desire them, and so he says, "If I wished to go to them," which I did not do easily, "I used to sit in the first place," for I was honored among them. Nevertheless, he did not become arrogant in honors, and so he says, "and when I used to sit like a king surrounded by his army," with all admiring me from here and there, "I was still a consoler for those who mourned," and did not hold them in contempt.

Commentary on Job ↗