On the Resurrection of the Flesh — Chapter 59

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1 Cor. iii. 22.

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Isa. xl. 7.

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Ver. 5.

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Demetere.

5

Isa. xl. 15.

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Ver. 17. The word is spittle, which the LXX. uses in the fifteenth verse for the “dust” of the Hebrew Bible.

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Isa. xlii. 4, Sept; quoted from the LXX. by Christ in Matt. xii. 21, and by St. Paul in Rom. xv. 12.

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An allusion to some conceits of the Valentinians, who put men of truest nature and fit for Christ’s grace outside of the ocean-bounded earth, etc.

Chapter 59