Bullinger and Seiss treatments cited from PD originals (≤50 words each). Cross-link to /featured/seed-promise (the narrative the constellation-figure proposes to encode). Critical echo from §5: Coma's "desired one" reading depends on a contested etymology that Faulkner argues was selected to fit the gospel narrative.
Virgo (Bethulah / Almah) — the Promised Seed
Bullinger: a virgin holding a branch and an ear of corn; Coma the desired one; reading Gen 3:15.
Primary passage:Job 38:32 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
J O B CHAP. XXXVIII. In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have…
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