(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Tormented [or ill-treated], he says; that is, suffering distress, in journeyings, in dangers.
But They wandered about, what is this? Wandering, he says, in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth, like exiles and outcasts, as persons taken in the basest [of crimes], as those not worthy to see the sun, they found no refuge from the wilderness, but must always be flying, must be seeking hiding-places, must bury themselves alive in the earth, always be in terror.
