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Job 40:20

Job 40:20 (WEB)

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

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Origen

  • “In the last (chapter) also of Job, in which the Lord utters to Job amid tempest and clouds what is recorded in the book which bears his name, there are not a few things referring to the serpent.” — editor's note: Cf. Job xl. 20.

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  • “That he is an apostate, i.e., a fugitive, even the Lord in the book of Job says, “Thou wilt take with a hook the apostate dragon,” i.e., a fugitive.” — editor's note: Job xl. 20 [LXX.].

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • “And though speaking words so many and so great in his boldness, without doubt, like a dragon he was drawn with a hook by the Saviour, and as a beast of burden he received the halter round his nostrils, and as a runaway his nostrils were bound with a ring, and his lips bored with an armlet.” — editor's note: Ibid. 2. Cf. Job xl. 19–24

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Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “…it is compared to a grain of mustard seed; and you must exalt the adversary above the Majesty of Jesus, because he is called a great Mountain, and Leviathan and King of that which lives in the water, whereas Christ is called the Lamb, and the Pearl, and the Drop and similar names.” — editor's note: The word Leviathan does not occur in the LXX., though it is found twice in other Greek Versions of the Book of Job, viz.:—iii. 8 and xl. 20.

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