Job 40:16 (WEB)
Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.
Fathers and councils · 6
Jerome
“And yet though Lucifer be fallen (the old serpent after his fall),“his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.” — editor's note: Job xl. 16, 21. R.V. “He lieth under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed and the fen.”
Read the whole comment“Like the prophet he has carried his girdle across the Euphrates (for all the devil’s strength is in the loins), and has hidden it there in a hole of the rock.” — editor's note: Job xl. 16 (said of Behemoth); cf. Letter XXII. § 11.
Read the whole comment“Job was dear to God, perfect and upright before Him; yet hear what he says of the devil: “His strength is in the loins, and his force is in the navel.”” — editor's note: Job xl. 16, of behemoth.
Read the whole comment“In Job it is written of behemoth that “his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.”” — editor's note: Job xl. 16. Cf. Letter XXII. § 11.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.4Conference V
“And it is clear to everybody that fornication also is only completed by a bodily act, as God says of this spirit to the blessed Job: “And his force is in his loins, and his strength in the navel of his belly.”” — editor's note: Job xl. 16.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…by the other’s firmness, overthrown by his great faith and falling through his constant prayers, then at length putting his trust in the weapons which are ‘in the navel of his belly’ and boasting in them—for they are his first snare for the young—he attacked the young man, disturbing him by night and harassing…” — editor's note: Job xl. 16 (v. 11, LXX): the descriptions of behemoth and leviathan are allegorically referred to Satan, cf. Orat. i. 1, note 5. and below, §24, Ep. Æg. 3.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Life of Antony §4.
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Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.
Cited together in Life of Antony §4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.