Holy Scripture

Job 38:12

A church father on this verse
“Hast thou commanded the morning since thy birth, and hast thou shewn to the day-spring its place? Our Lord Jesus Christ, in that He is the Power and Wisdom of God, is born of the Father before all times, or rather, because He neither began, nor ceased to be born, let us say more truly that He was ever born. Yet we can…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; And did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

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10And I set bounds to it, Surrounding it with bars and gates.

11And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, But thy waves shall be confined within thee.

— Job 38:12 —

13To lay hold of the extremities of the earth, To cast out the ungodly out of it?

14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

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