“My bowels boiled, and rested not. The days of affliction prevented me. Since for 'the bowels' of Holy Church 'to boil' is for her to endure in the fierceness of persecution, these very persons too, whom she had before in the love of the faith carried as 'bowels.' Which same first acquainting themselves with her secret…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
— Job 30:27 —
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.