Tag: Job
Desert Fathers: Keeping the Word of God
One of the hermits said, “… Adam, even though he was in Paradise, disobeyed God’s command while Job, who was living on a dung hill, kept it. It seems that God requires from us a good intention, that is, that we should fear him always”
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V