Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 46:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 99, footnote 20 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1460 (In-Text, Margin)

... meaning. To say nothing of other topics, it prophesies the resurrection of men’s bodies at once with more clearness and with more caution than any one has yet shewn. “I know,” Job says, “that my redeemer liveth, and that at the last day I shall rise again from the earth; and I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. This my hope is stored up in my own bosom.” I will pass on to Jesus the son of Nave[Ecclesiasticus 46:1] —a type of the Lord in name as well as in deed—who crossed over Jordan, subdued hostile kingdoms, divided the land among the conquering people and who, in every city, village, mountain, river, hill-torrent, and boundary which he dealt with, marked ...