“He leaneth upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall prop it, but it shall not rise up. As the house of our exterior life is the building which the body lives in, so the house of our thought is any thing whatever that the mind is centered in by affection. For every thing that we love, we as it were make our dwe…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII
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15He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
— Job 8:15 —
16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.