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Ad seen the man Christ Jesus, in his glorified body; who on earth had
said, "I am the resurrection and the life"--himself an illustration of
it, whom alone the grave has yielded up to die no more. He is,
therefore, to saints in heaven, a far more interesting object than Enoch
and Elijah, who never died. "For now is Christ risen from the dead, and
is become the first fruits of them that slept." This sight, of Christ in
heaven, must have had unutterable interest for Paul, from the assurance
that Christ will "change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body;" for "we know that when he shall appear," Paul
himself tells us, "we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
This knowledge, obtained in the heavenly world, may have led the apostle
to think of the resurrection as the crown of all his expectations and
hopes. It is noticeable that the writers of the New Testament, and Jesus
himself, refer chiefly to the resurrection and the last day as sources
of comfort, and also of warning. Now this is made a principal ground of
belief, with many, that there is either no consciousness between death
and the resurrection; or, that none have gone to heaven, nor to hell,
but to intermediate places, seeing that final rewards and punishments
are, in so many instances, wholly predicated of the last day. But those
who believe that the souls of the righteous are, at their death, made
perfe
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