25. Christ
as the Resurrection.
Now He is called the light of men and the true light and
the light of the word, because He brightens and irradiates the higher
parts of men, or, in a word, of all reasonable beings. And
similarly it is from and because of the energy with which He causes the
old deadness to be put aside and that which is
par excellence
life to be put on, so that those who have truly received Him rise again
from the dead, that He is called the resurrection. And this He
does not only at the moment at which a man says,
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“We are buried with Christ through
baptism and have risen again with Him,” but much rather when a
man, having laid off all about him that belongs to death, walks in the
newness of life which belongs to Him, the Son, while here. We
always
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“carry about
in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus,” and thus we reap the
vast advantage, “that the life of the Lord Jesus might be made
manifest in our bodies.”
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Rom. vi. 4
.
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2 Cor. iv. 10
.