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Job 28:8

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Gregory the Dialogist

The children of the dealers have not trodden it, nor hath the lioness passed through it. In all the Latin copies we find the word 'Instructors' put down, but in the Greek we find 'traders,' whereby it may be inferred that in this passage the several copyists from being ignorant put 'instructors' instead of 'dealers.' For we call traders 'institores' on this account, that they are 'instant in plying work.' But both the one phrase and the other, though they disagree in utterance, yet are not at variance in meaning, because all those …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Next he treats of men saying, "The sons of peddlers have not trodden it," (the merchants who are used to go to places that are hard to reach for profit). Then he treats of the four-footed animals saying, "nor will the lioness," who lives in wild places, "cross it."

Commentary on Job ↗