“This the Lord openly indicates to blessed Job, saying: "Will you catch Leviathan with a hook?" By Leviathan, which means "their addition," that whale who devours the human race is designated. For while he promised to add divinity to man, he took away immortality. And the guilt of transgression, which he gave the first…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 25
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1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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— Job 41:1 —
2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?