Exposition of the Apostles Creed eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 129 pages of information about Exposition of the Apostles Creed.

Exposition of the Apostles Creed eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 129 pages of information about Exposition of the Apostles Creed.
original do not express it so strongly as those of the English version:  “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God."[213] In the Psalms there are various intimations that faithful servants of God looked for a future life in which the body as well as the spirit should find place.  Isaiah prophesied, “Thy dead men shall live, my dead body shall arise.  Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:  for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."[214] Daniel still more emphatically declares, “Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."[215] The story in the second book of Maccabees of the seven martyr-brothers, who would not accept life from the tyrant on condition of denying their God, proves that they were strengthened to endure by the sure hope of “a better resurrection.”  One of them thus confessed his faith:  “Thou like a fury takest us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise us up, who have died for His laws, unto everlasting life.”  Another of the brothers, about to have his tongue plucked out and his hands cut off, “holding forth his hands manfully, said courageously, These I had from heaven ... and from Him I hope to receive them again.”  Their mother, who is thought to have been one of the saints that in the Epistle to the Hebrews are said to have been tortured, not accepting deliverance, encouraged her sons to be faithful unto death by telling them that God who had given them life at the first would restore it.  “I am sure,” she said, “that He will of His own mercy give you breath and life again as ye now regard not your own selves for His laws’ sake."[216] The Pharisees in the days of our Lord held by the doctrine, which the Sadducees, who rejected belief in angels and spirits, denied.  The belief expressed by Martha when she said of her brother Lazarus, “I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day,"[217] was in all likelihood current in her time.  It may have been to impress the truth of resurrection-life for the body that Enoch, before the flood, and Elijah, in later Old Testament times, were translated; but it is in the New Testament, in words spoken by the Lord Jesus, that resurrection is fully revealed.  “Marvel not at this,” said He to the Jews; “for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."[218] In reply to the Sadducees, who attempted to ridicule His statements regarding resurrection, He said, “Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God";[219] and He put them to silence by showing that the truth of resurrection was implied in the name by which God revealed Himself to Israel,
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