Job is said to be one of them, and a tradition is there recorded, which runs thus:"it is written, that he rose with whom the Lord rose.''But it should seem rather, that they were some later saints, such as Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, John the Baptist himself, good old Simeon, Joseph the husband of Mary, and others, well known to persons now alive.
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Job 42:17
Job 42:17
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