“Let Him take away His rod from Me, and let not His fear terrify me. MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION For in the Law God held the rod, in that He said, 'If any man do this or that, let him die the death.' But in His Incarnation He removed the rod, in that He shewed the paths of life by mild means. Whence it is said to Him by th…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX
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34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
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32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
— Job 9:34 —
35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.