Resurrection of the Body
The bodily resurrection prophesied in Job, who testifies that he will rise from the earth on the last day and see God in his flesh -- the clearest and most cautious prophecy of bodily resurrection in the Old Testament.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Jerome praises Job as the model of patience whose book prophesies the resurrection of bodies more clearly and cautiously than any other.
"it so prophesies the resurrection of bodies that no one has written of it either more clearly or more cautiously."
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply
— Silkworms as a proof and type of the resurrection: dying in their cocoon and reviving as butterflies.
"silkworms are a proof and type of the resurrection. For in them, first a tiny worm is born from seed, from this comes a caterpillar, from the caterpillar a silkworm, which fills itself with mulberry leaves, and when full, spins threads of silk"
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Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament
— In the resurrection God will produce a new sun with seven times more light than the present sun.
"in the resurrection God will produce another sun, which will have a different form, not only accidental but substantial, inasmuch as it will naturally have seven times more light than our present sun has, as Isaiah says, ch. 30, 26."