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 lives, we shall live also; and to have an interior perception that, as the Lord has risen indeed, so, if we become purified by love to Him, we shall rise also to newness of life, and where He is, there also shall His servants be.

Peter and John are representative of faith and charity; and being united in the act of going to the sepulchre to seek the Lord, their minds became opened to a clear and distinct perception of divine truth. The napkin that had been about the head of the Lord, would denote divine truth in its highest and holiest principles; while the other linen would represent truth of a more external nature. Thus, whether we consider the subject in reference to Mary Magdalene, or in reference to Peter and John, they bear witness of the Lord as the resurrection and the life; as the beginning and the ending; the first and the last; who is, who was, and who is to come—the Almighty.

HE Apostle James has given us this encouragement in his epistle (Jas. i. 12): "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am "tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." And yet man is blessed when he endures