Job 31:24 (WEB)
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
Fathers and councils · 2
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.20Conference I
“…command bids us, become good money-changers, whose highest skill and whose training is to test what is perfectly pure gold and what is commonly termed tested, or what is not sufficiently purified in the fire; and also with unerring skill not to be taken in by a common brass denarius, if by being coloured with bright…” — editor's note: Obrizum. The word occurs in the Vulgate five times for “pure gold.” See 2 Chr. iii. 5; Job xxviii. 15; xxxi. 24; Isa. xiii. 12; Dan. x. 5; and is akin to the…
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John Chrysostom
“And if thou wouldest see his ways of exercise also, hear him saying, how he used to despise wealth: “If I did but rejoice,” saith he, “because my wealth was great: if I set gold up for a heap, if I put my trust in a precious stone.”” — editor's note: Job xxxi. 25, 24, LXX.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
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Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.
Cited together in Conferences I–X I.20.