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Q&A 57 How does "the resurrection of the body" comfort you?
- Not only my soul
- will be taken immediately after this life
- to Christ its head,1
- but even my very flesh, raised by the power of Christ,
- will be reunited with my soul
- and made like Christ's glorious* body.2
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- 1 Luke 23:43; Phil. 1:21-23
- 2 1 Cor. 15:20, 42-46, 54; Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2
Q&A 58 How does the article concerning "life everlasting" comfort
you?
- Even as I already now
- experience in my heart
- the beginning of eternal joy,1
- so after this life I will have
- perfect blessedness such as
- no eye has seen,
- no ear has heard,
- no man has ever imagined:
- a blessedness in which to praise God eternally.2
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- 1 Rom. 14:17
- 2 John 17:3; 1 Cor. 2:9
- *The first edition had here the German word for "holy." This was
later
- corrected to the German word for "glorious."
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