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he had as a child. Saint Paul formally sanctions this identity when he writes: so also is
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the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption .
So, concludes H. Lesetre, author of the passage from the Dictionary of the Bible that
we have quoted above, the body will have something of a spiritual nature where
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incorruptibility and agility are concerned .
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Let us now re-examine the data furnished by the sacred texts and theology
concerning the different aspects of resurrection.
This problem was not a burning topical question during the Cycle of the Father .The
Old Testament deals with it only theoretically. It is relegated to the unfathomable future
in the form of the last Judgement. Regarding the body, the only thing that appears
certain is that man lieth down, and riseth not, according to a quotation to which we
have referred already.
For the Cycle of the Son, Jesus placed the question of the resurrection of the dead on
the practical plane, particularly by calling Lazarus back to life. He confirmed this
possibility of individual resurrection by his own return to life. Saint John makes an
allusion to this mode of resurrection. However, there is no question of a
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I Corinthians, XV, 42-44.
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I Corinthians, XV, 36-44.