“Who rejoiced in the midst of the like, and reckoned there were delights under brambles. What do we understand by the name of 'brambles,' but those 'piercings' of sins, which we have already described above. Now because froward minds delight in wickednesses, which they should have bewailed, all heretics uplift themselv…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
— Job 30:7 —
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.