Verse 25.—'For I know that my Redeemer liveth.' 67. Job openly foretold Christ the Redeemer.—For he who says not 'Creator,' but 'Redeemer,' openly announces Him who, after He had created all things, that He might redeem us from captivity, appeared among us made incarnate, and by His own Passion freed us from perpetual death. And it is to be noted with how great faith he binds himself in the power of His divinity, concerning whom it is said by Paul: 'For although He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God' (2 Cor. xiii, 4). For he says: 'For I know that my Redeemer liveth.' As if he said in open voice:
Let every unbeliever have known Him scourged, mocked, smitten with palms, crowned with a crown of thorns, defiled with spittle, crucified, dead; I with sure faith believe Him to live after death, with free voice I profess it—because my Redeemer liveth, who lay dead among the hands of the impious. But do thou, blessed Job, since through His resurrection thou art also confident concerning the resurrection of thine own flesh, profess it, I pray, with open voice. There follows: