{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4139.tlg038.local004","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg038.local004","title":"In Iob sermo 4","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Severianus Gabalensis","authorityName":"SEVERIANUS Orat. et Scr. Eccl.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4139-severianus-orat-et-scr-eccl/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4139-severianus-orat-et-scr-eccl/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":null,"sourceTitle":"Patrologia graeca","edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":"1862","volume":"576–582","series":null,"citation":"Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 576–582 1862","citationShort":"Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 576–582 1862"},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften","sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Transcription of the text; correction and standardisation of spelling, accents, and punctuation to modern editorial standards","names":[]},{"role":"Conversion to CTS-compliant PTA TEI; added biblical references","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":null,"sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Severianus Gabalensis. In Iob sermo 4. Non-critical edition (spelling, accents and punctuation corrected and standardised to modern editorial standards by Sever Voicu) Patrologia graeca 56 Migne Jean-Paul Paris 576–582 1862. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4139.tlg038.local004","excerpt":"Πανταχοῦ μὲν καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων, ὡς εἰπεῖν, τῶν θείων διηγημάτων κατώτεροι τῶν πραγμάτων οἱ λόγοι καὶ ἀσθενέστεραι αἱ λέξεις τῶν ὑποθέσεων, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν τῷ μακαρίῳ Ἰὼβ κατωρθωμένων. Οὐδεὶς οὐδεπώποτε δύναται τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ὑποθέσεως παρισῶσαι τὸν λόγον τῆς ἑαυτοῦ εὐτελείας. Κἂν γὰρ μυρία περὶ αὐτοῦ λέγηται, τῆς κατ’ ἀξίαν δυνάμεως ὁ λόγος ἀπολιμπάνεται. Ἐπεὶ οὖν εἴρηται ἡμῖν τὰ κατὰ δύναμιν μετρίως, οὐδὲν κωλύει καὶ σήμερον τῶν αὐτῶν ἅψασθαι διηγημάτων. Καὶ μηδεὶς νομιζέτω ὑβρίζεσθαι τὴν ὑπόθεσιν, εἰ κατατέμνωμεν τὸ διήγημα. Οὐ γὰρ ἀλγεῖ Ἰὼβ τεμνόμενος· εἰ γὰρ τὸ σῶμα τεμνόμενος οὐκ ἤλγει, τῷ διηγήματι τεμνόμενος ἀλγήσει; Ἔγνωμεν ἀπὸ τῶν προειρημένων διηγημάτων, ὡς ἀπώλεσεν ἅπαντα, μᾶλλον δὲ εὗρεν ἅπαντα. Πάντα γὰρ τὰ φαιδρὰ ἀπολέσας τὴν ῥίζαν τῆς φαιδρότητος οὐκ ἀπώλεσεν. Ἀπώλεσε τὴν λύραν, ἀλλ’ ἔμενεν ὁ τεχνίτης, ἀπώλεσε τοὺς καρποὺς τῆς εὐθηνίας, ἀλλ’ ἔμενεν ὁ γεωργὸς τῆς…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/#tlg4139-tlg038-local004-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/#tlg4139-tlg038-local004-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/#tlg4139-tlg038-local004-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/#tlg4139-tlg038-local004-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4139.tlg038.local004.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4139/tlg038/local004.json.gz"}}