“The stones of it are the place of sapphire, and her clods gold. The proclaim of the glory going before adds to the guilt of the sin following after. For the fall of every individual is of worse criminality, in proportion as before he fell he had the power to be of greater excellency. Thus let it be told of Judaea, let…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII
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6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
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4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
— Job 28:6 —
7There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
8The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.