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Job 19:27

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. For if, as certain votaries of false opinions believe, after the resurrection there shall be no palpable body, but the subtle quality of an invisible body shall be called the flesh, though there be no substance of flesh, then surely he that dies is one person, and he that rises again is another. But blessed Job destroys this assertion for them by a truthtelling voice, in that he says, Whom I shall see for myself; and mine eyes shall behold, and not another. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Porphyry, not knowing this said, "The soul must flee the body to become happy," as though the soul and not man will see God. To exclude this Job places, "whom I myself will see," as though he should say: Not only will my soul see God but "I myself" who subsist from body and soul. To indicate that the body will be a participant in that vision in its proper own way he adds, "and my eyes will behold him," not because the eyes of the body would see the divine essence, but because the eyes of the body will see God made man. …

Commentary on Job ↗