“As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle. As of each individual man, so is the age of Holy Church described. For she was a little one, when fresh from the birth she was unable to preach the Word of Life. Hence it is said of her, My sister is a little one, and she hath no breasts; in thi…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX
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4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
— Job 29:4 —
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;