Job 5:26 (WEB)
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
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- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 197To S. Gregory of Nyssa
“…namely to have lived with such a soul, and to send her away and store her up in the safe garners, like a shock of the threshingfloor gathered in due season, to use the words of Holy Scripture; and that in such time that she, having tasted the joys of life, escaped its sorrows through the shortness of her life; and…” — editor's note: Job v. 26.
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