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Thank you,
William,
You give so much to us to fit the pieces in this Luke 20:27 search.
For the moment the windows open everywhere.
God bless.
Donald
William,
You give so much to us to fit the pieces in this Luke 20:27 search.
For the moment the windows open everywhere.
God bless.
Donald
Jesus challenged by the Sadducees |
---- Forwarded Message ----
From: WILLIAM …
To: Donald ….
Sent: Sat, 6 November, 2010 19:01:21
Subject: Gospel Luke 20:27 a window on the Resurrection
From: WILLIAM …
To: Donald ….
Sent: Sat, 6 November, 2010 19:01:21
Subject: Gospel Luke 20:27 a window on the Resurrection
Dear Father
Donald,
Verse 33 has a
brisk translation of the words from the Sadducees in the commentary "Sacra
Pagina", which reads - "one is tempted to translate, 'Remember, all
seven had the same wife'", their point being the impossibility of a
physical resurrection. The commentary concludes with a comment: "Compare
Paul's statement on the discontinuity between 'flesh and blood' and the
glorified resurrection body, 1 Cor 15:35."
One doesn't need
to engage so deeply with St Paul's
letter to the Corinthians to gain an insight, but refer to (the Sacra
Pagina commentary on) the recent reading from the Epistle to the
Philipians which contains the wonderful verse, 3:21 (which has occupied me ever
since):
"who will
change our humble body conforming to his glorious body"
"The
language of v.21 demonstrates what the saviour will do. 'Change' has as its
root the term 'likeness' (schema). It
means to change the outward form or the appearance of something. God has
eternal plans for the 'body', the soma as opposed to the flesh (sarx),
which for Paul implies the whole person. The body exists in at least two forms,
the 'lowly body', or 'earthly existence', and the 'glorious body' that
belongs to the risen Christ. Only the saviour can change one to the other. The
word for 'change' involves both the inward and outward substance. The point is
that human flesh is impermanent, subject to illness, disease, dissolution. The
action of Jesus has transfigured flesh (made of it a soma?)
because by him its enemy, death, has been destroyed".
All our faith
needs are such insights on which to contemplate.
. . . in Our
Lord,
praying that the influenza may flee before the coming wintry weather,
praying that the influenza may flee before the coming wintry weather,
William
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