{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>From the words, \"Till we all come to a perfect man, to the\r\nmeasure of the age of the fulness of Christ,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_992_992\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_992_992\">[992]</a> and from the\r\nwords, \"Conformed to the image of the Son of God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_993_993\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_993_993\">[993]</a> some\r\nconclude that women shall not rise women, but that all shall\r\nbe men, because God made man only of earth, and woman of\r\nthe man. For my part, they seem to be wiser who make no\r\ndoubt that both sexes shall rise. For there shall be no lust,\r\nwhich is now the cause of confusion. For before they sinned,\r\nthe man and the woman were naked, and were not ashamed.\r\nFrom those bodies, then, vice shall be withdrawn, while nature\r\nshall be preserved. And the sex of woman is not a vice,\r\nbut nature. It shall then indeed be superior to carnal intercourse\r\nand child-bearing; nevertheless the female members\r\nshall remain adapted not to the old uses, but to a new beauty,\r\nwhich, so far from provoking lust, now extinct, shall excite\r\npraise to the wisdom and clemency of God, who both made\r\nwhat was not and delivered from corruption what He made.\r\nFor at the beginning of the human race the woman was made\r\nof a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for\r\nit seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_510\">[Pg 510]</a></span>\r\nbe foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man\r\nwas the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon\r\nthe cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it\r\nblood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by\r\nwhich the Church is \"built up.\" For Scripture used this very\r\nword, not saying \"He formed\" or \"framed,\" but \"built her\r\nup into a woman;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_994_994\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_994_994\">[994]</a> whence also the apostle speaks of the\r\n<i>edification</i> of the body of Christ,<a id=\"FNanchor_995_995\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_995_995\">[995]</a> which is the Church. The\r\nwoman, therefore, is a creature of God even as the man; but\r\nby her creation from man unity is commended; and the\r\nmanner of her creation prefigured, as has been said, Christ and\r\nthe Church. He, then, who created both sexes will restore\r\nboth. Jesus Himself also, when asked by the Sadducees, who\r\ndenied the resurrection, which of the seven brothers should\r\nhave to wife the woman whom all in succession had taken to\r\nraise up seed to their brother, as the law enjoined, says, \"Ye\r\ndo err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_996_996\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_996_996\">[996]</a>\r\nAnd though it was a fit opportunity for His saying, She\r\nabout whom you make inquiries shall herself be a man, and\r\nnot a woman, He said nothing of the kind; but \"In the\r\nresurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage,\r\nbut are as the angels of God in heaven.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_997_997\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_997_997\">[997]</a> They shall be\r\nequal to the angels in immortality and happiness, not in flesh,\r\nnor in resurrection, which the angels did not need, because\r\nthey could not die. The Lord then denied that there would\r\nbe in the resurrection, not women, but marriages; and He\r\nuttered this denial in circumstances in which the question\r\nmooted would have been more easily and speedily solved by\r\ndenying that the female sex would exist, if this had in truth\r\nbeen foreknown by Him. But, indeed, He even affirmed that\r\nthe sex should exist by saying, \"They shall not be given in\r\nmarriage,\" which can only apply to females; \"Neither shall\r\nthey marry,\" which applies to males. There shall therefore\r\nbe those who are in this world accustomed to marry and\r\nbe given in marriage, only they shall there make no such\r\nmarriages.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-806"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a7d9405aeda70690d66fec4fb5f61f09138f5fd16952fcbebfbf83aecdd5b229","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iv. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_992_992","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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