Job 19:26 (WEB)
After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
Fathers and councils · 5
Cyril of Jerusalem
“…again; and immediately he adds, I will wait till I be made again; and again elsewhere, Who shall raise up on the earth my skin, which endures these things.” — editor's note: Job xix. 26: (R.V.) and that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth: and after my skin hath been thus destroyed, &c. Cyril, as usual, follows the…
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Augustine of Hippo
“…or let us understand the authority of the Scriptures, spread out over the whole world, under the name of a skin; because mortality is signified in a skin, but all the authority of the Divine Scriptures was dispensed unto us through mortal men, whose fame is still spreading abroad now they are dead.” — editor's note: [Job xix. 26.—C.]
Read the whole comment“As for the words of the above-mentioned Job, as they are found in the Hebrew manuscripts, “And in my flesh I shall see God,” no doubt they were a prophecy of the resurrection of the flesh; yet he does not say “by the flesh.”” — editor's note: Job xix. 26. [Rev. Vers.; “from my flesh,” with the margin: “without my flesh.”—P.S.]
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Jerome
“This my hope is stored up in my own bosom.”” — editor's note: Job xix. 25–27, Vulg.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Or that other passage in which holy Job, after experiencing the miseries of this life, and overcoming all adversity by his virtuous patience, promised himself a recompense for present evils in the resurrection, saying: “Thou shalt raise up this body of mine which has suffered many evils.”” — editor's note: Job xix. 26. Somewhat loosely from the LXX.
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