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Job 37:9

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

A tempest will come forth from the inner parts, and cold from Arcturus. When Holy Scripture mentions the inner parts, in opposition to Arcturus, it designates the quarter of the South, opposite to the parts of the North. Whence it is written in this same book; Who maketh Arcturus, and the Orions, and the inner parts of the South. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then he shows the effects of the different winds. On this subject one must consider that the South winds produce the rains and storms. North winds cause cold air. Southern winds come to us from the direction of the South Pole, which is unknown to us, because it is sunk down beneath our horizon by the same distance as the North Pole is elevated above our horizon, and so he says, "From the lower part, storms will arise," as if to say: A storm comes to us by a wind which proceeds from the part of heaven which is always extended down …

Commentary on Job ↗