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| Chapter VII.—The body valuable in God’s sight.
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Chapter VII.—The body valuable in
God’s sight.
But the proof of the possibility of the resurrection of
the flesh I have sufficiently demonstrated, in answer to men of the
world. And if the resurrection of the flesh is not found impossible on
the principles even of unbelievers, how much more will it be found in
accordance with the mind of believers! But following our order, we must
now speak with respect to those who think meanly of the flesh, and say
that it is not worthy of the resurrection nor of the heavenly
economy,2626
because, first, its substance is
earth; and besides, because it is full of all wickedness, so that it
forces the soul to sin along with it. But these persons seem to be
ignorant of the whole work of God, both of the genesis and formation of
man at the first, and why the things in the world were made.2627
| 2627 This might also be rendered,
“and the things in the world, on account of which he was
made;” but the subsequent argument shows the propriety of the above
rendering. | For does not the word say, “Let Us make man
in our image, and after our likeness?”2628
What kind of man? Manifestly He means fleshly man, For the word
says, “And God took dust of the earth, and made man.”2629
It is evident, therefore, that man made in the
image of God was of flesh. Is it not, then, absurd to say, that the flesh
made by God in His own image is contemptible, and worth nothing? But that
the flesh is with God a precious possession is manifest, first from its
being formed by Him, if at least the image is valuable to the former and
artist; and besides, its value can be gathered from the creation of the
rest of the world. For that on account of which the rest is made, is the
most precious of all to the maker.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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