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| XXVIII.
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XXVIII.
“And the man of God
said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a
tree, and cast it in there, and the iron floated.”4843
This was a sign that souls should be
borne aloft (ἀναγωγῆς ψυχῶν) through the
instrumentality of wood, upon which He suffered who can lead those souls
aloft that follow His ascension. This event was also an indication of
the fact, that when the holy soul of Christ descended [to
Hades], many souls ascended and were seen in their bodies.4844
For just as the wood, which is the lighter
body, was submerged in the water; but the iron, the heavier one, floated:
so, when the Word of God became one with flesh, by a physical and
hypostatic union, the heavy and terrestrial [part], having been rendered
immortal, was borne up into heaven, by the divine nature, after the
resurrection.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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