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 ''I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. . . . Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places.''

Lection II. Of the identity of the risen with the present body.

Proposition 1. The two bodies are essentially one. The resurrection is one of the flesh, not of the soul only.

It is a resurrection of substantial flesh, not of an aerial phantom.

Job distinctly says, In my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself and not another; in the same skin and flesh, not in other skin and flesh; with the same eyes.

Example of Eutychius of Constantinople confessing this truth when dying.

Corollary. From this we see what dignity belongs to the human body, with what reverence man should treat it, and how it is worthy to be guarded carefully by angels (Jude 9).

Proposition 2. Although the risen body is identical with the natural body in substance, yet it differs from it in accidents. For the risen body has four dowers

1. Impassibility, or incapacity for suffering pain, disease, or corruption.

2. Glory, being made resplendent as the sun, after the fashion of Christ’s transfiguration