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Job 19:26

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

And I shall be again encompassed with my skin. But see, I hear of the resurrection, but it is the effect of the resurrection that I am searching out. For I believe that I shall rise again, but I wish that I might hear what kind of person; since it is a thing I ought to know, whether I shall rise again perhaps in some other subtle or ethereal body, or in that body wherein I shall die. But if I shall rise again in an ethereal body, it will no longer be myself, who rise again. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

There were other men who said that men will rise by resuming not an earthly body, but some kind of heavenly body. To exclude this he then says, "I will be surrounded again with my own skin." He expressly says this because he had said above (v.20) that only the skin had remained around his bones. In this way of speaking he assigns the explanation (ratio) of the resurrection, namely, that the soul does not always remain divested of its very own skin. …

Commentary on Job ↗