Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), Vol. II
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~300,000 words · 1,431 passages
Cite this work
- APAGregory I. (n.d.). Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), Vol. II. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/gregory-i/moralia-in-job-morals-on-the-book-of-job-vol-ii
- MLAGregory I. Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), Vol. II. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/gregory-i/moralia-in-job-morals-on-the-book-of-job-vol-ii.
- ChicagoGregory I. Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), Vol. II. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/gregory-i/moralia-in-job-morals-on-the-book-of-job-vol-ii.
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What it is about
The continuation of Gregory the Great's commentary on Job, in the same nineteenth-century English translation.
Context and history
This stretch is the one that weighed most: here the book turns into a treatise on the moral life, with the catalogue of chief vices that later reached the Middle Ages and, by one route or another, Dante. It helps to recall what it is: not theory written at a desk but exposition before a community of monks, revised afterwards, and the register is that of someone speaking to people he knows.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
In which the twelfth chapter, from the sixth verse, the thirteenth, and the first four verses of the fourteenth, are explained, a different style heing adopted for the time. 1. Though in a long work variableness of style ought not i. to be a matter of blame, yet lest any should censure me for change in my way of expressing myself, in the Epistle which was prefixed to these books, I gave the reasons^ why I never ^ pi. A. brought the third part of this Work up to a likeness and^^^ ' ' accordance with the others by amending it. And while