“MORAL INTERPRETATION. There the former prisoners are alike without vexation. For though the just are possessed by no riot of carnal desires, yet the clog of corruption binds them down in this life with hard chains; for it is written, For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV
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18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
— Job 3:18 —
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;