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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 16. "O my lord, at the sight of thee my joints are loosed..." Theodotion interprets it this way, in accordance with what we read in the One Hundred and Second Psalm: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name." (Psalm 103:1) For our inward nature must direct its gaze without, before we deserve to behold a vision of God; and when we actually have beheld a vision of God, then our inward nature is converted within us and we become wholly of the number of those concerning whom it is written in …
Hippolytus of Rome
For he spoke in this way, "And I saw, and behold, as an appearance of a son of man he touched me." [Daniel 10:16] And so at first he said, "as the hand of a man," [Daniel 10:8] but now he says, "as an appearance of a son of man," so that at first it was partially shown to him, but secondly the whole human nature was put on and shown to him. For the Word of God in the figure of a man is proclaimed as a man and is displayed in the world as an incarnate man, though not yet then being a son of man. …
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