{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And I know that He was possessed\r\nof a body not only in His\r\nbeing born and crucified, but I also\r\nknow that He was so after His resurrection,\r\nand believe that He is\r\nso now. When, for instance, He\r\ncame to those who were with Peter,\r\nHe said to them, “Lay hold,\r\nhandle me, and see that I am not\r\nan incorporeal spirit.”<a id=\"r1249\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1249\"><sup>[1249]</sup></a> “For a\r\nspirit hath not flesh and bones, as\r\nye see me have.”<a id=\"r1250\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1250\"><sup>[1250]</sup></a> And He says\r\nto Thomas, “Reach hither thy\r\nfinger into the print of the nails,\r\nand reach hither thy hand, and\r\nthrust it into my side;”<a id=\"r1251\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1251\"><sup>[1251]</sup></a> and immediately\r\nthey believed that He\r\nwas Christ. Wherefore Thomas\r\nalso says to Him, “My Lord, and\r\nmy God.”<a id=\"r1252\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1252\"><sup>[1252]</sup></a> And on this account\r\nalso did they despise death, for it\r\nwere too little to say, indignities\r\nand stripes. Nor was this all; but\r\nalso after He had shown himself to\r\nthem, that He had risen indeed,\r\nand not in appearance only, He\r\nboth ate and drank with them\r\nduring forty entire days. And\r\nthus was He, with the flesh, received\r\nup in their sight unto Him\r\nthat sent Him, being with that\r\nsame flesh to come again, accompanied\r\nby glory and power. For,\r\nsay the [holy] oracles, “This same\r\nJesus, who is taken up from you\r\ninto heaven, shall so come, in like\r\nmanner as ye have seen Him go\r\nunto heaven.”<a id=\"r1253\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1253\"><sup>[1253]</sup></a> But if they say\r\nthat He will come at the end of\r\nthe world without a body, how shall\r\nthose “see Him that pierced\r\nHim,”<a id=\"r1254\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1254\"><sup>[1254]</sup></a> and when they recognise\r\nHim, “mourn for themselves?”<a id=\"r1255\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1255\"><sup>[1255]</sup></a>\r\nFor incorporeal beings have neither\r\nform nor figure, nor the\r\naspect<a id=\"r1256\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1256\"><sup>[1256]</sup></a> of an animal possessed of\r\nshape, because their nature is in\r\nitself simple.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.)","THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNÆANS.","Chap. iii.—Christ was possessed of a body after His resurrection."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-514"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"59f5478be42fcc21622b056379cb68e748067536522cf1b64ebc18ad8d284d05","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1256","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1256","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1256\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1256\">1256</a>. </span>Or, “mark.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1256","text_sha256":"a32d65fd8f1dc3d3040091fced44209050583af83154b6b7d5c588e36f4e47e4","verified":false,"work_id":null}