“Hence it is that this very Mary of whom we speak lives, because He who owed nothing to death lay down for the human race. Hence it is that we daily return to life after our sins, because our Creator descended without guilt to our punishment. Behold, the ancient enemy has now lost the spoils he had begun to take from t…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 25
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2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
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1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
— Job 41:2 —
3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?