The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I20 The Gates Ajar. "You do not suppose that we shall look as we look now?" " I certainly do. At least, I think it more than possible that the'human form divine,' or something like it, is to be retained. Not only from the fact that risen Elijah bore it; and Moses, who, if he had not passed through his resurrection, does not seem to have looked different from the other, - I have to use those two poor prophets on all occasions, but, as we are told of them neither by parable nor picture, they are important, - and that angels never appeared in any other, but because, in sinless Eden, God chose it for Adam and Eve. What came in unmarred beauty direct from His hand cannot be unworthy of His other Paradise'beyond the stars.' It would chime in pleasantly, too, with the idea of Redemption, that our very bodies, free, from all the distortion of guilt, shall return to something akin to the pure ideal in which He moulded them. Then there is another reason, and stronger." "What is that?" "The human form has been borne and dignified forever by Christ. And, further than that, He ascended to His Father in it, and lives there in it as human God to-day."

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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