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Enoch and Elijah entered the heavenly world 

 both soul and body. Job says that after his body 

 is destroyed, "in my flesh I shall see God." 



The exterior nature of Christ's humanity must 

 be located in some particular part of a visible and 

 tangible world. How earnestly did St. Paul, during 

 his suffering, long to " depart and to be with Christ, 

 which is far better." 



We know not in what part of the wide universe 

 the throne of God is built and the eternal temple 

 stands, but that it is a place and not a state the 

 Scriptures lead us to believe. It is described as a 

 " better country " free from all evil both of soul 

 and body. Christ tells His followers, "in My 

 Father's house are many mansions ; if it were not 

 so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 

 for you." St. Paul says " Jerusalem which is above 

 is free, which is the mother of us all." 



It is represented as the " city of the living God, 

 the heavenly Jerusalem," " Mount Sion," "the joy 

 of the whole earth." St. Paul speaks of Abraham 

 sojourning " in the land of promise, as in a strange 

 country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and 

 Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise, for 

 he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose 



