Ibid. — He smote Job with a most grievous ulcer, from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head. 8. In Job's body nothing is free from pain, that in his soul nothing may be free from glory. — Scourges are always to be weighed in two ways, so that it may be considered either of what quality or of what magnitude they are. For often many things are lightened by their quality, often heavy things by their quantity: namely, if when they are many, they be not heavy; but when heavy, they be not many. Therefore, that it may be shown how, through the harshness of the scourge, the adversary blazed against the holy man not only by the wickedness of quality, but also by the weight of quantity, to demonstrate the quality it is said: He smote him with a most grievous ulcer; but to intimate the quantity it is added:
From the sole of the foot even to the crown, so that assuredly nothing in his mind might be free from glory, in whose body nothing was free from pain. There follows: