“Wherefore then do ye now say, Let us persecute him, and find out the root of the word against him? Fly therefore from the face of the sword, for the sword is an avenger of wickedness; and know that there is a judgment. For in the first sentence he reproved the deeds of the wicked, while in the following he made known…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV
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28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
— Job 19:28 —
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.