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Faith Q&A › Catechism › 9. The Fall of Humanity

What did Job endure? (according to St. John Chrysostom).663

The answer

His poverty was worse than a beggar’s.

He endured physical pain.

He endured the death of his children.

He endured ridicule from men.

He endured the horrors of the night.

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

663 See St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 3 (NPNF I/9:273).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.