And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And I. Septuagint, "But he will raise up my body or skin, which has sustained these things. This now has been accomplished for me by the Lord; (27) which I know within myself, which my eyes have seen, and not another. For all things are accomplished in my bosom. "I am as fully convinced of this glorious event, (Haydock) as if it were past. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "and though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. "(Protestants, or in the margin, "After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of "Various other interpretations are given. (Haydock)
But we had as well adhere to the Septuagint, Vulgate (Du Hamel)
God. Sixtus V and some other editions, add "Saviour. "(Calmet)
Job would see the Messias by the eyes of his posterity. (St. Augustine or Faustus, ser. 234. t. v. App.) (Sanctius)
He hoped also to see God face to face in glory (Calmet) though not by means of his corporeal eyes, (Haydock) and to be restored to favour, so that God would n...
72. Whereas the ‘skin’ is expressly named, all doubt of a true resurrection is removed; in that our body will not, as Eutychius the Bishop of Constantinople wrote, in that gloriousness of the resurrection be impalpable, and more subtle than the wind and air: for in that gloriousness of the resurrection our body will be subtle indeed by the efficacy of a spiritual power, but palpable by the reality of its nature; whence also our Redeemer, when the disciples doubted of His resurrection, shewed them His hands and feet, and offered His bones and flesh to be touched, saying, Handle Me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have. [Luke 24, 39] And when, being placed in the city of Constantinople, I brought before Eutychius this testimony of truth from the Gospel, he said, ‘For this reason the Lord did this, that He might take away all doubt of the resurrection from the hearts of the disciples.’ To whom I said; ‘This is a very extraordinary thing that you assert, that ...
