Job 1:2 (WEB)
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Fathers and councils · 3
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…came to be,’ and, ‘In wisdom hast Thou made them all;’ but in the case of sons which are generate, ‘To Job there came to be seven sons and three daughters,’ and, ‘Abraham was an hundred years old when there came to be to him Isaac his son;’ and Moses said, ‘If to any one there come to be sons.’” — editor's note: Job i. 2.
Read the whole comment“And Scripture says about Job, ‘And there came to him seven sons and three daughters.’” — editor's note: Job i. 2, LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Sift any one else, who is accounted righteous, yet is he not in all respects without sin; not even such as was Job, to whom the Lord bore such testimony, that the devil was filled with envy, and demanded that he should be tempted, and was himself defeated in the temptation, to the end that Job might be proved.” — editor's note: Job i. 2.
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