Job 1:7 (WEB)
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“For the understanding is the utterance of the heart.” — editor's note: See St. Greg. on Job i. 7, Oxf. Tr. vol. i. p. 73.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…this is what the devil says in the book of Job to the Deity, when (Satan) uses these words: “I have traversed earth under heaven, and have gone around (it),” that is, that I have been turned around, and thereby have been able to survey the worlds.” — editor's note: This refers to Job i. 7, but is at once recognised as not a correct quotation.
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