Fra Angelico, The Crucifixion: Detail, Job

1441-43
Fresco
Convent of San Marco, Florence

This detail is one of the insets in the border around the main image of the Crucifixion, all of which have banderoles with phrases relating to the Crucifixion. Job's banderole reads Quis det de carnibus ejus, ut saturemur, "Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?" (Job 31:31b). In context, Job is saying that he never cursed his enemy, nor let his men (metaphorically) feast on his flesh. But the Christian take on the question is that "Mystically, this is about Christ, with whose flesh they wanted to be filled, or the Jews of that time desiring to destroy his flesh as if in consuming it, or believing Gentiles who are refreshed every day by his body" (Glossa Ordinaria, 1481 edition, for Job 31:31, my translation).

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