My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Teeth. I am like a skeleton, so strangely emaciated, and my flesh corrupted: even my bones are not entire. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. "Only my gums are left. My bones cut the skin. Symmachus, "I tore my skin with my teeth."
57. By ‘bone’ we have strength, and by flesh weakness of the body denoted; therefore, whereas Christ and the Church are one person, what is signified by the ‘bone’ but the Lord Himself? what by the ‘flesh’ save the disciples, who in the hour of His Passion were weakly disposed? but by the ‘skin,’ which in the body remains more outward than the flesh, what is represented but those holy women, who with the view to furnish the stays of the body, served the Lord by outward offices of ministration? for when His disciples, though not yet firm, were preaching faith to the people, the flesh kept close to its bone; and when the holy women prepared the outward things that were necessary, they as it were like ‘a skin’ remained on the body outwards; but when it came to the hour of the Cross, exceeding great fear, caused by the persecution of the Jews, took possession of His disciples: they severally fled, the women ‘stuck close,’ and so, the ‘flesh,’ as it were, ‘being consumed,’ ‘the bone of ...
