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(Covered with garments, note 7, p. 469.)

A heathen might have retorted, had he known the Scriptures, by asking about the "white robes" of angels, and the raiment of the risen Redeemer; e.g., Rev. i. 13. "Curious and unlearned questions" concerning these matters have been stirred by a certain class of Christians. (See Stier 1 and Olshausen. 2 ) But let us not reason from things terrestrial as regards things celestial: our coarse material fabrics are "shadows of the true." The robes of light are realities, and are conformed to spiritual bodies, as even here a mist may envelop a tree. Because of men's stupid and carnally gross ideas, let it be said of "harps" and "phials," and all like phraseology as to things heavenly, once for all, "it doth not yet appear" what it means; but they intimate realities unknown to sense, and "full of glory."


  1. Words of Jesus, vol. viii. p. 63, trans., ed. Edinburgh, 1858. ↩

  2. New-Testament Commentary, Kendrick's trans., vol. iii. p. 120, ed. 1858. ↩

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Gegen die Heiden (BKV)
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