Capitolo 82
having been in sky for centuries, and being grown in entirely spiritual
excellence, the body, to be a help to such spirit, to be an occasion
of the joy, and not of regret, owes, clearly, both in advance of our present
bodily nature. What it owes the body of Isaiah, and of David, both, to the
resurrection, to correspond with the enormous powers and attainments of
those glorified spirits? We could not believe, we certainly was not able
sees, as these the bodies of ours could be done able such union, it was
it not that, in the man Christ Jesus, we see our bodily nature
able such transformation as to constitute him/it compatible his/her human creature
you mind, and the indwelling Divinity, to receive him/it in their ineffable union.
This whole being so, we am able, in of the measure, conceives some feelings
with which the souls in sky anticipate the resurrection; and we stop
to wonder because Paul speaks of his/her resurrection as him the great object of his
desire--not only to be in sky, but, being in sky, with Christ,
own a completed nature as Christ.
From the grave where sown was in corruption, it will enter before
incorruption; sown in dishonor, will be elevated in glory; sown in
weakness, will be elevated in the power; sown a natural body, will be
raised a spiritual body. It was naked wheat" when it fell in the
earth; but the corn, with his/her walks stiff, and leaves and the curious ear,
with his/her silk and his/her wrappings, the multiplication of the naked wheat""
in such product, it is an illustration of the words of the apostle,--"You
sowest not that body that will be; " from now, him dispute, doesn't say,
incredulously, "As it is the corpse it raised, and with that body does their
does come?" God the giveth the wheat a body as it haths arranged him; he is able
the same with respect to that part of the nature of man for which is committed
once to the earth. Doesn't do the natural difficulties it connected with
this subject does us sceptic. There am no anybody more connected difficulties
with a grave that with a grapevine of grape of grape. Those distant twigs, on that dry