What has been said about the symbolism of holy Church should now be briefly repeated for its moral sense. For it is appropriate that through the things said to blessed Job we learn to be called back to our hearts, because the mind more surely understands the words of God when it seeks itself in them (Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Part VI, ch. 8; PL 76, 459).

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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