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The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Extract

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion—Death!

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Research Article
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1949

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References

page 128 note 1 The Shaking of the Foundations.

page 129 note 1 Isa. 59.3

page 129 note 2 op. cit. p. 171.

page 129 note 3 In a private paper.

page 131 note 1 One of Virgil's untranslatable lines expresses this familiar pathos of mortality as the sense of tears in things: Sunt lactymae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

page 132 note 1 (Gorg. 493A); cf. St. Paul who knows that the body is not a tomb, but a temple.

page 132 note 2 “Komm süsser Tod,”

page 134 note 1 See P. Tillich, The Protestant Era, p. 106. This, his latest volume, is a profound commentary on what he calls elsewhere “corporal being as the end of the ways of God”. See pp. 131 and 167 with their insistence that the “soul” as the vital and emotional ground from which the self-conscious personality arises, includes the “body”. “The body is the immediate expression and the form of the self-realisation of the soul.” Indeed, this corresponds to the interrelation of the personality with things and community.

page 134 note 2 That it sometimes came erroneously to mean resurrectio carnis, especially at certain epochs of Christian history, is undeniable. See Kirsopp Lake, The Earlier Epistles ofS. Paul, on I Corinthians 6.1a, 10.8 and 15.

page 136 note 1 cf. Calvin, Inst. 2.16.10: “…diros in anima cruciatus damnati ac perditihominis pertulerit,” i.e. “He endured in His soul the dreadful torments of a condemned and lost man.”

page 136 note 2 Notice how Handel in The Messiah passes at once from “Cut off from the land of the living” to “But Thou didst not leave His soul in Hell.… Lift up your hearts”.

page 137 note 1 W.A. xi.433.

page 137 note 2 Tischreden(W.A.) i.467.

page 137 note 3 C.R.ix.81.

page 137 note 4 Inst. 4.17.11.

page 138 note 1 C.R. ix.79.

page 138 note 2 Inst. 4.17.18.

page 138 note 3 Inus. 4.17.29.

page 138 note 4 See W. Kunneth Theologie der Auferstehung, a brave attempt to present a critical apologetic in terms of all the New Testament data; cf. also Niebuhr, R., The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol. II, ch. 10,$2 on “The New Testament Idea of the End ”Google Scholar.