The Open court . nguage and defines spirit as the wordswhich he speaks. He says: The words that I speak unto you,they are spirit, and they are life. (John vi. 63.) If the nature of ISee Bastians Verbleibs-Ort der Sfif/^, Plate I. Reproduced from AlUrlei aus Volks- undMensckenkunde, Vol. II., Plate XVII., 5 and 7. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OK DEATH. 753 spirit had been understood in this sense, the Church would nothave passed in its evolution through a number of grievous errors;it would have avoided the materialism which characterises bothits psychology and its dogma of the life to come. St. Pau

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The Open court . nguage and defines spirit as the wordswhich he speaks. He says: The words that I speak unto you,they are spirit, and they are life. (John vi. 63.) If the nature of ISee Bastians Verbleibs-Ort der Sfif/^, Plate I. Reproduced from AlUrlei aus Volks- undMensckenkunde, Vol. II., Plate XVII., 5 and 7. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OK DEATH. 753 spirit had been understood in this sense, the Church would nothave passed in its evolution through a number of grievous errors;it would have avoided the materialism which characterises bothits psychology and its dogma of the life to come. St. Paul taught that Christ had bodily risen from the dead,and he regards Christs bodily resurrection as a guarantee of thebodily resurrection of all those who believe in Christ. He believedthat the bodies of the dead would on their resurrection at the greatday of the Lord be transfigured, and the Church formulated thedoctrine in the Apostles Creed in the terse but unmistakable for-mula of the resurrection of the

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