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Job 19:25

Started by Ewigkeit, Tue May 27, 2008 - 09:05:13

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Ewigkeit

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  What a wonderful declaration of expectant faith nd hope!

Allegiance

That is really great, our God is an unfailing, victorious God! ::supersmiley::

Ewigkeit

In his celebrated oratorio, "Messiah", G. F. Handel really caught the significance of this verse in one of the greatest arias ever written.

Te Deum

This is a beautiful Scriptural verse indeed.  And, I must agree that Handel's "Messiah" is a brilliant masterpiece.

For reflection, I have typed up Haydock's Bible Commentary on this verse:

QuoteVer. 25. Redeemer may be understood of the Deity, without confining it to the second Person; (Isaias xli. 14., and lxix. 7.; Piscator) though it may have a more peculiar reference to Christ: (Junius; Haydock) in whom he believed, as the Redeemer of all mankind. (Calmet) --- Earth. Yea, ere long I shall be restored to health, (St. Chrysostom; Grotius) as an earnest and figure of the resurrection. Nothing is more common, in Scripture, than for the same prophecy to have a double accomplishment; one soon after it is made public, and another more sublime and remote. Job seemed to have no expectation of surviving his present misery, (ver. 7., and chap. vii. 7., and xxiv. 15.) unless God now revealed it to him, as a figure of his future resurrection, founded on the hope of our Saviour's, which he expresses in much clearer terms. Hebrew, "I know that my Redeemer is living, and that he will raise himself one day upon the earth," (Calmet) like a conqueror, (Haydock) or wrestler, having overthrown his antagonist: (Amama) or, "he will stand the last upon the earth, or dust," (Piscator) ascending his throne, to judge all. (Deodat.) --- Yet Luther translates, "and one day he will raise me up from the earth;" which is not conformable to the Hebrew. Others explain, "he....will place (26) this, my skin, after they (worms) shall have ruined it." (Pagnin; Montanus) --- But Amama suspects that the latter is not in earnest. Pineda defends the Vulgate and observes that yakum (Haydock) may signify, "will raise" himself, or "me;" the latter being at least a consequence of the former, if St. Jerome did not read it me in his copy. So St. Paul argues; If Christ be risen, we also shall rise again. Septuagint, "For I know that he is eternal, who will set me free," (Haydock) by death, (Calmet; or redemption; Greek: ekluain) "upon the earth."

Ewigkeit

I would suggest that this verse may well be the finest testimony of faith in Jesus Christ in all the Old Testament.

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