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Job 42:10

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

respects only his substance, and particularly his cattle; though the Targum says he had fourteen sons, and so Jarchi ; others think these may be said to be double to Job in their good qualities, external and internal, in their dispositions, virtues, and graces; and others, inasmuch as his former children were not lost, but lived with God, and would live for ever, they might now be said to be double; and so they consider this as a proof of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body; but these senses are not to be trusted to; whether these children were by a former wife or another is uncertain.

Vid. Balmes. Gram. Strat.

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