Acts 17:31 → Job 19:25-27

From the ash-heap, wasted to skin and bone and abandoned by kin, Job confesses the OT's earliest clear individual-bodily-resurrection-hope: "But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth. Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him" (Job 19:25-27). The Hebrew גֹּאֵל (go'el) is the kinsman-redeemer (Lev 25:25; Ruth 3-4), here a living heavenly Redeemer who stands at the last (אַחֲרוֹן, acharon) upon the dust of death and secures Job's vindication, so that Job himself will see God face to face beyond the grave. At the Areopagus Paul gathers the very cluster Job's confession had already gathered: God "has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed," and "has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead" (Acts 17:31) — the eschatological standing-at-the-last (a judgment day appointed), the vindication-by-resurrection of the appointed Man, and the public visibility of that vindication (Job: "my eyes will behold Him"; Paul: "proof to everyone"). This is an Echo, not an Allusion or quotation: no NT author ever quotes Job 19:25, there is no citation formula and no shared lexeme (Paul's Greek borrows nothing from an LXX Job 19); the ATN itself ranks Acts 17:31 the closest single resonance precisely as canonical resonance, not citation. The warranting methods are therefore Longitudinal Theme — both texts are nodes in the canon's resurrection-and-vindication trajectory, the living Redeemer who stands at the last meeting the raised Man appointed for the last day — and Promise-Fulfillment in the broad sense that the hope Job staked everything on (a living Redeemer who would stand and be seen) finds its public, historical answer in the raised and appointed Man; it is not typology, because Job is not a person or event prefiguring Christ but a believer confessing a hope whose content Christ's resurrection fulfills. The telos: Job's deepest ache was not bare survival but sight — "my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!" (v.27) — and Acts 17:31 answers that yearning with a Redeemer already raised and already appointed, so the believer's hope of beholding Him is not a doctrine to be endured but a living Person to be longed for and, at the last, gladly seen.