“The corn desireth clouds. And the clouds scatter their light. For what are all the Elect, but the corn of God, to be treasured up in the heavenly garners? Which now bear with the chaff in the threshing of the floor; because in this purification of Holy Church, they endure the contrary habits of the reprobate, till the…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII
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11Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
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9Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
— Job 37:11 —
12And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.