his is evident in Job's words, where he says: "Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6). Another translation explains it more clearly, saying: "I despised myself, and melted away, and considered myself as dust and ashes." In this moment of humility, Almigh…

Cum Job a Domino reprehensus, ipse quoque se reprehenderit, dicens, Idcirco ipse me reprehendo (Job XLII, 6, 7) : quomodo item Dominus eum praeferens amicis suis, locutus sit dicens: Non estis locuti coram me rectum, sicut servus meus Job (Ex lib. XXXV, num. 9) ? Quomodo superi…

licio et cinere lamenta poenitudinis sumpsit, dicens: Idcirco ago poenitentiam in favilla et cinere (Job. XLII, 6) . Post hunc nobis David poenitentiae magisterium praebuit, quando gravi vulnere lapsus, dum audisset a propheta peccatum suum, confestim poenituit, et culpam suam po…