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Now, from the text, [5088] "Ye are the body of Christ, and members each in his part," we see that even though the harmonious fitting of the stones of the temple appear to be dissolved and scattered, as it is written in the twenty-second Psalm [5089] that all the bones of Christ are, by the plots made against it in persecutions and afflictions, on the part of those who war against the unity of the temple in persecutions, yet the temple will be raised again, and the body will rise again on the third day after the day of evil which threatens it, [5090] and the day of consummation which follows. For the third day will rise on the new heaven and the new earth, when these bones, the whole house of Israel, [5091] will rise in the great Lord's day, death having been overcome. And thus the resurrection of the Saviour from the passion of the cross contains the mystery of the resurrection of the whole body of Christ. But as that material body of Jesus was sacrificed for Christ, and was buried, and was afterwards raised, so the whole body of Christ's saints is crucified along with Him, and now lives no longer; for each of them, like Paul, glories [5092] in nothing but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which He is crucified to the world, and the world to Him. Not only, therefore, is it crucified with Christ, and crucified to the world; it is also buried with Christ, for we were buried with Christ, Paul says. [5093] And then he says, as if enjoying some earnest of the resurrection, "We rose with Him," [5094] because He walks in a certain newness of life, though not yet risen in that blessed and perfect resurrection which is hoped for.

[5088] 1 Cor. xii. 27.

[5089] Ver. 14.

[5090] 2 Peter iii. 3, 10, 13.

[5091] Ezek. xxxvii. 11.

[5092] Gal. vi. 14.

[5093] Rom. vi. 4.

[5094] These words do not occur in Rom. vi. 4.
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