![]() They seem to grow, to come to maturity, to decay but after all we know no more about them than meets our senses. ![]() We are apt to talk about our bodies as if we knew how or what they really were whereas we only know what our eyes tell us. He is alive because all God’s saints live to him, though they seem to perish. Abraham is still alive in the dust, though not risen thence. He cannot in the end be held under the power of the grave, any more than a sleeping man can be kept from waking. His announcement is, Abraham “shall” rise from the dead, because in truth he “is”still alive. Our Blessed Lord seems to tell us, that in some sense or other Abraham’s body might be considered still alive as a pledge of his resurrection, though it was dead in the common sense in which we apply the word. This may seem evident at first sight but it may be asked how the text proves that their “bodies” would live for, if their “souls” were still living, that would be enough to account for their being still called in the Book of Exodus servants of God. When God called himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He implied that those holy patriarchs were still alive, though they were no more seen on earth.
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