Job 40:20 (WEB)
Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.43Book VI
“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.
Read the whole comment “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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