“I will not accept the person of man, I will not equal God to man; for I know not how long I shall continue, or whether after a while my Maker may take me away. Most judiciously he does not make God equal to man, since he knows not how long he may continue, or when in the judgment of God be taken away. And he well says…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII
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21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
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19Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
20I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
— Job 32:21 —
22For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.