Moralia in Job

An illuminated initial from Gregory's Commentary on Job, Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, or Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, sometimes called Moralia in Job or Magna Moralia (but not to be confused with Aristotle's Magna Moralia), was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II at Constantinople, but finished only after he had already been in Rome for several years. It is Gregory's major work, filling some 35 books or 6 volumes, a commentary on the Book of Job entitled "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions".

Editions

• Carolingian manuscript copy of Moralia in Job produced in Laon (late 8th century AD)
• Citeaux Monastery illustrated manuscript, Burgundy (1111)
• Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, Basel (1496)
• Patrologia Latina, volumes 75–76.
• English translation in Library of the Fathers (4 vols., Oxford, 1844)