Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
“For I know that my Redeemer lives and that at last he will be revealed upon the earth.” Here the blessed Job predicts the future manifestation of Emmanuel in the flesh at the end of time. - "Commentary on Job 19.25"
Myself. Hebrew, "for myself "and for my comfort; not like the reprobate, who shall see their judge to their eternal confusion. Job insists so much on this point, that he shows he is not speaking merely of the divine favour being restored to him, in the re-establishment of his health and affairs, but that he raises his mind to something more solid and desirable, of which the former was only a faint representation. (Calmet)
"No one since Christ has spoken so plainly of the resurrection, as this man did before the coming of the Messias. "(St. Jerome, ad Pam.)
This. Hebrew, "though my reins be consumed within me "(Protestants; Haydock) or, "my reins (desires and tender affections) are completed in my bosom. "(Calmet)
“For I know that he, who is about to deliver me on earth, is immortal.” That is, he who has to deliver me on earth is God. What does this mean? If God is immortal, why do you want your words to be written and their memory to remain eternally, in an imperishable manner? Notice the state of the soul of those who are in distress. They want not only those who are seeing these events now, but also those, who will come later, to be witnesses of their own misfortunes, in order to obtain, in a sense, a certain sympathy from everyone. This is evidently what the rich man tried to do when he wanted to inform everybody about his own misfortunes and about the situation in which he who previously lived in luxury finally finds himself.
“He will raise up my body that endures these sufferings, for it is the Lord who caused them.” Did Job know the doctrine of resurrection? I believe so, and the doctrine concerning the resurrection of the body, unless he says here that the resurrection that he speaks abo...
