OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. 



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object of the heart with all the system 1 Well, the lungs are mainly 

 used to aerate the blood, and the blood is simply to convey the 

 sustentation to the parts. The blood is a carrier, and it carries the 

 small corpuscles which furnish the nutriment of the whole system. 

 In the risen body the system does not seem to need that method of 

 nutriment at all.* What is the nutriment of the angelic frame 1 

 We read in the Psalms that men did eat angels' food. Do angels 

 eat food ? How little we know. 



It is evident that the Lord was able to reproduce for the benefit 

 of witnesses the very same aspect, the height and colour, and the 

 tone of the voice, which had been known before. He had but to 

 utter one word, " Mary," and she turned round and said, "Rabboni." 

 There was no possibility of doubting that Jesus was the same 

 person she had known before. When the two disciples were going 

 to Emmaus they walked beside Him with burning hearts but did not 

 know Him, but presently, at the breaking of bread, He was revealed. 

 So it was in other instances. 



What happened to the Lord's flesh at the Resurrection 1 I have 

 often watched the process of an acorn's growth. One sees the 

 development of the germ, and the manifestation of little rootlets, 

 and then the parts of the acorn that seemed more important, perish ; 

 yet the essence remains in the rootlet and the shoot. But in 

 Christ's case, so far as I can judge, the whole of the material was 

 used up in the resurrection body. It was all turned to account. 

 That body which had been a pure temple of a pure soul, and had 

 never been injured in the way we so often injure our bodies by 

 wrong-doing, that body in its pristine purity at the age of 33, was 

 consigned to the grave, and the whole of the material of the body 

 — apart perhaps from any remaining blood, if there was any, which 

 may be doubted — the whole was turned to account in the resurrec- 

 tion body. It was sown in one condition ; it sprang up in another 

 condition. I do not think one is able really to say more on that 

 subject. I notice some one said it was resolved into its elements. 

 I would have liked to hear Professor Lionel Beale on this. He has 



* It has been suggested to me that sin caused incipient decay, and that 

 much less food would have been needed for the supply of waste tissue if 

 it had not been for the constant antagonism with corruption to which we 

 are subjected at present. — R. B. G. 



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