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Job 3:18

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

MORAL INTERPRETATION. There the former prisoners are alike without vexation. For though the just are possessed by no riot of carnal desires, yet the clog of corruption binds them down in this life with hard chains; for it is written, For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"There, those" who were "once chained, will be at ease together," without their former pain together with those who held them bound. There too men weighed down with anguish and with slavery, "hear not the voice of the taskmaster." This accords with Isaiah, "How the oppressor has ceased; there is no more tribute." (14:4)

Commentary on Job ↗