My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.
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Didymus the Blind
AD 398
Since Job wants to show that not only the body is resurrected but also the soul whose thoughts are fixed on God, he says, “You would call, and I would answer you.” For listening when God calls is a quality of a creature endowed with reason, that is, the soul. - "Commentary on Job 14.15b"
Cured. Hebrew, "sewed up. "This method and sealing was in use to keep things of value, before locks were invented. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "thou hast noted if I had transgressed unwillingly, akon. "Yet God will not make us accountable for what we cannot help.
We are said to answer anyone, when we work in a way answerable to what another requires. Thus, in that change the Lord “calls,” and a person “answers.” Thus, before the brightness of the Incorrupt, humankind is shown forth as incorrupt even after being corrupted. For now so long as we are subject to corruption, we do not in any way “answer” our Creator, seeing that whereas corruption is far from incorruption, there is no similarity suitable to our answering. But of that change it is written, “When he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” Then, therefore, we shall truly “answer God,” who “calls,” when at the bidding of the supreme Incorruption we shall arise incorruptible. - "Morals on the Book of Job 12.18"
21. Our ‘transgressions are sealed up as it were in a bag,’ in that that thing which we ourselves do in outward act, except we wash away by penance in the mean while, is kept in the secresy of God’s judgments under a kind of hiding, that one day it may also come forth out of the bag of secresy into the publicity of the Judgment. Hence it is said by Moses too; Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed up among My treasures? In the day of vengeance I will repay them. [Deut. 32, 34] But when for the evil things that we have done, we are bruised with the stroke of discipline, and lament the same by penance, He ‘sealeth up,’ and ‘healeth’ our iniquity, in that He neither leaves things unpunished here, nor reserves them to be punished in the Judgment. Thus He ‘seals transgressions,’ in that He marks them with exactness here, to chastise them with the rod, but He ‘heals’ them, in that He wholly remits them in the stroke. Hence the iniquity of that persecutor of Him, whom He laid ...
