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put off the old man . And this, entirely. We must be initiated, no longer symbolically,
but through a whole interior communion with the mystery of Golgotha: the human

heart crucified, to die, at first, in order to be resurrected later.
The resurrection appears, thus, as man’s last end if he pledges himself

wholeheartedly to consciously play the role which he is destined to play.

And now we must search the Scriptures in order to study the problem of the
Resurrection.

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By resurrection, the Bible means the reconstitution of human bodies before the last
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Judgement, in order to unite them with the Souls that they sheathed .
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One can find many allusions to this in different texts of the Old Testament . Artists
have drawn freely on this subject for their religious paintings. They depict men with

bodies and souls appearing before the Sovereign Judge to hear the final verdict on their
fate. This vision is in perfect harmony with other declarations which tend to give us a

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clearer picture . Such a conception is perfectly logical in itself. An immortal soul,

4 Ephesians, IV, 21-24; Colossians, III, 9.
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Dictionary of the Bible, published by F. Vigoureux, priest of St. Sulpice, with the aid of a
number of collaborators, Paris, Letouzy and Ané, 5 vol. in 4°, 1895-1912, t. V, p. 1063.
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Job, XIX, 25-27; also Ezekiel, XXXVII, 1-14.
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Dictionary of the Bible, op. cit., t. V, p. 1070.