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RESURRECTION
OF
THE
BODY.
But
St.
Paul
meets
this
objection
and
solves
this
difficulty.
He
tells
us
that
not
as
it
went
down
into
the
grave
does
the
resurrected
body
of
the
righteous
come
up
in
the
resurrection.
“It
is
sown
in
corruption,
it
is
raised
in
incorruption
;
it
is
sown
in
dishonor,
it
is
raised
in
glory
;
it
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sown
in
weakness,
it
is
raised
In
power;
1t1s
sown
a
natural
[animal]
body,
it
is
raised
a
spir-
itual
body.”
1
Cor.
xv,
42,
44.
It
is
sown
an
animal
body—ouua
poyuon,—that
is,
says
Dr.
Gregory,
“a
body
which
previously
existed
with
all
the
organs,
faculties,
and
propensities
requi-
site
to
procure,
receive,
and
appropriate
nutrl-
ment,
as
well
as
to
perpetuate
the
species;
but
it
shall
be
raised
a
spiritual
body,
refined
from
the
dregs
of
matter,
utterly
impermeable
by
every-
thing
which
communicates
pain,”
freed
from
the
organs
and
senses
required
only
in
its
former
state,
and
probably
possessing
the
remaining
senses
in
greater
perfection,
together
with
new
and
more
exquisite
faculties,
fitted
for
the
exalted
state
of
existence
and
enjoyment
to
which
it
is
now
ris-
ing.”
It
is
in
accordance
with
this
that
it
is
said,
“Who
[that
is
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ]
shall
CHANGE
our
vile
body,
that
it
may
be
fashioned
like
to
his
glorious
body.”
Phil.
iii,
21.
Here
the
identical
VILE
BODY—that
is,
this
body
be-
longing
to
our
state
of
abasement,
subject
to
1n-
firmities
and
sickness,
and
condemned
to
death
and
dissolution
because
of
sin—is
not
to
give
place
to
another
body,
but
to
be
CHANGED
and
fashioned
after
the
glory
of
the
resurrection
body
A
PP
a
AA
SS
SN
ISIN
SIN
NTN
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*
«Neither
shall
there
be
any
more
pain.”
Rev.
xxi,
4.
The
Greek
word,
ponos
here
translated
pein,
comprehends
toil,
fatigue,
and
excessive
labor
of
body,
as
well
as
vexation
and
anguish
of
spirit.
OBJECTIONS
CONSIDERED.
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of
Christ.
The
saints
of
God
are
to
come
forth
‘
IN
THE
LIKENESS
OF
HIS
RESURRECTION.”
Rom.
vi,
5.
And
so,
“when
he
shall
appear
we
shall
be
like
him.”
1
John
iii,
2.
The
RESURREC-
TION
BODY
OF
CHRIST,
then,
is
the
type
and
model
after
which
the
resurrection
bodies
of
the
saints
in
the
Redeemer’s
kingdom
are
to
be
fashioned.
But
each
of
these
shall
wear
its
type
of
beauty
and
glory;
each
shall
be
fashioned
lke
unto
his
glorious
body,
who
is
the
“
first-fruits
of
them
that
slept,”
and
who
has
declared,
“As
I
live,
ye
shall
live
also.”
There
may
be
diversity,
then,
variety
even,
among
the
resurrected
bodies
of
the
saints;
for
‘one
star
differeth
from
another
star
in
glory.”
1
Cor.
xv,
41.
But
even
this
diver-
sity,
instead
of
being
a
blemish
in
the
heavenly
society,
shall
constitute
one
of
its
noblest
beau-
ties,
and
prove
one
of
the
richest
sources
of
its
ever-varying
and
unalloyed
felicity.
And
even
with
regard
to
individuals,
each
one
shall
be
more
perfectly
himself,
and
consequently
better
pre-
pared
to
enjoy
the
heavenly
delights
now
accessi-
ble
to
him,
and
those
to
which
he
shall
rise
as
the
ages
of
eternity
roll
on,
from
the
fact
that
there
are
diversities—grades
above
and
below
him—in-
finitely
varied.
Thus
the
objector
has
created
his
objection
by
casting
the
dark
shadow
of
his
unbelief
over
one
of
the
most
glorious
truths
revealed
concerning
the
resurrection
state.