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| What is Meant by the Conforming of the Saints to the Image of The Son of God.
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Chapter 16.—What is Meant by the
Conforming of the Saints to the Image of The Son of God.
Then, again, these words,
“Predestinate to be conformed to the image of the Son of
God,”1632
may be
understood of the inner man. So in another place He says to us,
“Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed in the
renewing of your mind.”1633
In so far, then, as we are
transformed so as not to be conformed to the world, we are
conformed to the Son of God. It may also be understood thus, that
as He was conformed to us by assuming mortality, we shall be
conformed to Him by immortality; and this indeed is connected with
the resurrection of the body. But if we are also taught in these
words what form our bodies shall rise in, as the measure we spoke
of before, so also this conformity is to be understood not of size,
but of age. Accordingly all shall rise in the stature they either
had attained or would have attained had they lived to their prime,
although it will be no great disadvantage even if the form of the
body be infantine or aged, while no infirmity shall remain in the
mind nor in the body itself. So that even if any one contends
that every person will rise again in the same bodily form in which
he died, we need not spend much labor in disputing with
him.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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