{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But their way is to feign a scrupulous anxiety in investigating\r\nthis question, and to cast ridicule on our faith in the\r\nresurrection of the body, by asking, Whether abortions shall\r\nrise? And as the Lord says, \"Verily I say unto you, not\r\na hair of your head shall perish,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_986_986\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_986_986\">[986]</a> shall all bodies have an\r\nequal stature and strength, or shall there be differences in\r\nsize? For if there is to be equality, where shall those abortions,\r\nsupposing that they rise again, get that bulk which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_505\">[Pg 505]</a></span>\r\nthey had not here? Or if they shall not rise because they\r\nwere not born but cast out, they raise the same question\r\nabout children who have died in childhood, asking us whence\r\nthey get the stature which we see they had not here; for\r\nwe will not say that those who have been not only born, but\r\nborn again, shall not rise again. Then, further, they ask of\r\nwhat size these equal bodies shall be. For if all shall be as\r\ntall and large as were the tallest and largest in this world,\r\nthey ask us how it is that not only children but many full-grown\r\npersons shall receive what they here did not possess,\r\nif each one is to receive what he had here. And if the saying\r\nof the apostle, that we are all to come to the \"measure\r\nof the age of the fulness of Christ,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_987_987\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_987_987\">[987]</a> or that other saying,\r\n\"Whom He predestinated to be conformed to the image of\r\nHis Son,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_988_988\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_988_988\">[988]</a> is to be understood to mean that the stature and\r\nsize of Christ's body shall be the measure of the bodies of\r\nall those who shall be in His kingdom, then, say they, the size\r\nand height of many must be diminished; and if so much of\r\nthe bodily frame itself be lost, what becomes of the saying,\r\n\"Not a hair of your head shall perish?\" Besides, it might\r\nbe asked regarding the hair itself, whether all that the barber\r\nhas cut off shall be restored? And if it is to be restored,\r\nwho would not shrink from such deformity? For as the\r\nsame restoration will be made of what has been pared off\r\nthe nails, much will be replaced on the body which a regard\r\nfor its appearance had cut off. And where, then, will be its\r\nbeauty, which assuredly ought to be much greater in that\r\nimmortal condition than it could be in this corruptible state?\r\nOn the other hand, if such things are not restored to the\r\nbody, they must perish; how, then, they say, shall not a hair\r\nof the head perish? In like manner they reason about fatness\r\nand leanness; for if all are to be equal, then certainly\r\nthere shall not be some fat, others lean. Some, therefore,\r\nshall gain, others lose something. Consequently there will\r\nnot be a simple restoration of what formerly existed, but, on\r\nthe one hand, an addition of what had no existence, and, on\r\nthe other, a loss of what did before exist.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-795"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e726f7b83d6c0bd6da23c296a042ea995445fd59cd0c645e967e20305b257103","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xxi. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_986_986","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":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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