Nilus of Ancyra→Sabion|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Sabion the Magistrianus [a magistrianus, that is, an agens in rebus, an imperial courier-official].
You desired to learn the meaning of the three daughters of Job [Job 42:14, where their names in the Septuagint are Day, Cassia, and Horn of Amalthea]. Since, then, Job was released by the command of God from the night of afflictions and toils, of necessity he beheld the most radiant day of exultation, and of that rest and joy which is unceasing and eternal. For this reason he called his one, first daughter Day; and the second, Cassia [a fragrant spice akin to cinnamon]; for cassia is sweet-smelling, because, in place of the stench of the abominable suffering which he had endured before this, he acquired the sweet fragrance of the grace from on high. The third daughter, named Horn of Amalthea, is interpreted in the Greek tongue as "abundance of good things" [Greek amaltheia, suggesting unfailing plenty]. And you are by no means ignorant of the so many good things which the Lord bestowed, before the age to come, upon the steadfast and much-suffering Job: this is plain from here, namely, through his great endurance, and through his courage, his most excellent and conspicuous achievement and trophy.
To Sabion the Magistrianus [a magistrianus, that is, an agens in rebus, an imperial courier-official].
You desired to learn the meaning of the three daughters of Job [Job 42:14, where their names in the Septuagint are Day, Cassia, and Horn of Amalthea]. Since, then, Job was released by the command of God from the night of afflictions and toils, of necessity he beheld the most radiant day of exultation, and of that rest and joy which is unceasing and eternal. For this reason he called his one, first daughter Day; and the second, Cassia [a fragrant spice akin to cinnamon]; for cassia is sweet-smelling, because, in place of the stench of the abominable suffering which he had endured before this, he acquired the sweet fragrance of the grace from on high. The third daughter, named Horn of Amalthea, is interpreted in the Greek tongue as "abundance of good things" [Greek amaltheia, suggesting unfailing plenty]. And you are by no means ignorant of the so many good things which the Lord bestowed, before the age to come, upon the steadfast and much-suffering Job: this is plain from here, namely, through his great endurance, and through his courage, his most excellent and conspicuous achievement and trophy.
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