Capitolo 76
final day was nearby. This the apostle Paul expressly denies, in the
according to chapter of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. But a greater
event, looked to in the same line of vision with an intermediary and
smaller object, desire, clearly has the prominent place in ours,
thoughts. The less ones will be contained subordinates to the greatest; perhaps us
it will seem to underestimate the less, in our elevated conceptions of that
what increases over and above. We will see, as we proceed, because the
anticipation of the last day seemed to occupy the thoughts of apostles as
the eminent object of anticipation.
It is perfectly obvious that, to the resurrection, the bodies of the
only it will be gifted with marvelous susceptibility and the powers. This is
made certain by the great mystery of godliness,--God the demonstration in the
meat. The greatest honor that could be conferred on our nature, and
the greatest testimony to his/her intrinsic dignity, and to his/her being, in
its unfallens affirm, in the image of God, you/he/she is given on him by the
the incarnation of the Word. True, there was a necessity that the Savior
you/he/she should be done we like, however human and inferior nature would be in
the staircase of the creation; anchor there had been so intrinsic
the dignity and excellence in our innocent nature, as to do him/it compatible
for the second Person in the Divinity we cannot be united with him,
supposes that this union would have been permanent; it would have
carried out to a provisional purpose, and then you/he/she has stopped.
Perhaps we slightly err if we think about the assumption of Christ of human creature
nature as, in some respect, an incongruous action of humiliation. For man
you/he/she was done in the image of God; then when Christ was made meat,
without sin, him taken on him that that, in of the sense, it was
congruous with his/her divine nature. Its humiliation consisted, partly, in
his doing this; but more especially in him his to do this for such
purpose--for sinners; "in his/her born being, and that in a low condition,