“If I was minded to go to them, I sat chief. And when I sat as a king with an army standing round, nevertheless I was the Comforter of those that mourned. Because in the heart of lost sinners, the actions of the flesh are in the first place, and of the soul in the second, surely in their thoughts Christ 'sits' not 'fir…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.