Job 2:9 (WEB)
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
“A wife certainly was left.” — editor's note: Job ii. 9.
Read the whole comment““How long,” said she, “dost thou suffer” so and so; “speak some word against the Lord, and die.”” — editor's note: Job ii. 9
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John Chrysostom
“At any rate, when he had stripped him of every thing, observe what he says to him through his wife, “Say some word against the Lord, and die.” ( Job ii. 9.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…concern, and makes a tragical picture of his calamities in most pitiable tone, and feigns that for removal of his evil he is introducing that deadly counsel.” — editor's note: “Curse God and die,” Job ii. 9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But Job was tried by accumulated tidings of evils, he was also tried by his wife, who said, “Speak a word against God and die.”” — editor's note: Job ii. 9.
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Aphrahat
“Furthermore, the adversary tempted Job through his children and his possessions, and when he could not prevail over him, he went and brought against him his armour, and he came, bringing with him a daughter of Eve, who had caused Adam to sink, and through her mouth he said to Job, her righteous husband:—Curse God.” — editor's note: Job ii. 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In all these things which happened unto him, Job sinned not with his lips in the sight of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Job ii. 9, 10.
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Cross-references · 20
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Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.15.