198 Traces of Unity in the Personal, 



eTrnrodovvres : if so be that being clothed 

 we shall not be found naked, et 76 KOI evSvcrd/jbevoi, ov 

 yvftvol evpe6 i r]0'6p,e6a. For we that are in this tabernacle 

 do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be 

 unclothed, but clothed-iipon, that mortality might be 

 swallowed up of life, CTreiSr) ov 0e\o/j,ev eK&ixraadai,, d\\' 

 eirev^vaaadat, 'iva KaraTroOrj TO Ovrjrov VTTO rijs 00%. 

 . . . . Therefore we are always confident, knowing 

 that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent 

 from the Lord (for we walk by faith, and not by sight) : 

 we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent 

 from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 



Here, without question, the doctrine is that the 

 body is, not always what to the senses it now appears 

 to be, but sometimes this, and sometimes that which 

 may be transfigured or translated transfigured as it 

 was in Moses when he had to veil his countenance, or 

 in Ananias, Azarias, and Misael in the midst of the 

 fiery furnace, or in the disciplef at the day of Pentecost 

 (when, perhaps, it was not upon the head merely that 

 the tongues of fire rested), or in Stephen when his 

 countenance shone like that of an angel, or in Christ 

 when he underwent that change of which in aftertimes 

 the vision inspired Fra Angelico to paint the fresco 

 which still illumines the wall of the cell in the convent 

 of S. Mark at Florence in which he lived and died, 

 and Raphael to begin the wondrous picture, now in 

 the Vatican, which he did not live long enough to 

 finish translated as it was in the evangelist Philip 

 when he was caught away from the side of the eunuch 

 and found at Azotus, or in Christ, when he hid him- 

 self from the angry crowd at Nazareth, or when he 

 took bread and brake it at Emmaus. The present 

 body, indeed, is represented, not as something which is 



