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Job 41:6

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

His friends shall cut him in pieces; the merchants shall divide him. 33. This Leviathan is cut in pieces, as often as his members are severed from him by the sword of the Divine Word. For when wicked men hear the word of truth, and, smitten with holy fear, suspend their imitation of the ancient enemy, he, from whom those who wickedly adhered to him are withdrawn, is himself divided in his own body. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After he has shown that he cannot be subjected by the method by which animals are subjected, he shows consequently that man cannot use him, even if he were subjected by the method by which he uses other large animals when they are given into the power of man. …

Commentary on Job ↗