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| Our Destined Likeness to the Angels in the Glorious Life of the Resurrection.
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Chapter LXII.—Our
Destined Likeness to the Angels in the Glorious Life of the
Resurrection.
To this discussion, however, our Lord’s
declaration puts an effectual end: “They shall be,”
says He, “equal unto the angels.”7752
As
by not marrying, because of not dying, so, of course, by not having to
yield to any like necessity of our bodily state; even as the angels,
too, sometimes. were “equal unto” men, by eating and
drinking, and submitting their feet to the washing of the
bath—having clothed themselves in human guise, without the loss
of their own intrinsic nature. If therefore angels, when they became as
men, submitted in their own unaltered substance of spirit to be treated
as if they were flesh, why shall not men in like manner, when they
become “equal unto the angels,” undergo in their unchanged
substance of flesh the treatment of spiritual beings, no more exposed
to the usual solicitations of the flesh in their angelic garb, than
were the angels once to those of the spirit when encompassed in human
form? We shall not therefore cease to continue in the flesh, because we
cease to be importuned by the usual wants of the flesh; just as the
angels ceased not therefore to remain in their spiritual substance,
because of the suspension of their spiritual incidents. Lastly, Christ
said not, “They shall be angels,” in order not to repeal
their existence as men; but He said, “They shall be equal unto
the angels,”7753
that He might
preserve their humanity unimpaired. When He ascribed an angelic
likeness to the flesh,7754
He took not from it
its proper substance.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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