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 Theodoret and others. The celebrated passage in Job xix. has indeed been strongly insisted upon in proof of the early belief of this doctrine; but the most learned commentators are agreed, and scarcely any one at the present day disputes, that such a view of the text arises either from mistranslation or misapprehension, and that Job means no more than to express a confident conviction that his then diseased and dreadfully corrupted body should be restored to its former soundness; that he should rise from the depressed state in which he lay, to his former prosperity, and that God would manifestly appear (as was the case) to vindicate his uprightness." Again, the same authority remarks, "Isaiah may be regarded as the first Scripture writer in whom such an allusion can be traced. He compares the restoration of the Jewish people and state to a resurrection from the dead (chap. xxvi 19), and in this he is followed