![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the future world they say the good will be clothed with a vestment for the soul, which they speak of as lucid and radiant, and such as no one on earth can attain.- Schoettgen. After the fall, they say, Adam and all his posterity were regarded as naked. This vestment, they say, was "the image of God," which was lost by Adam. They affirm that the soul had a covering when it was under the throne of God, and before it was clothed with the body. The Jews speak of a vestment to the soul in this world and the next. The Pythagoreans compared the body to a tent or hut for the soul the Platonists liken it to a vestment.- Bloomfield. Both these figures are common in ancient writings and a change in this manner in the popular style is not unusual. Here he speaks of it as a garment which may be put on or laid off and of himself as earnestly desiring to put on the immortal clothing or vestment which was in heaven. One idea of the apostle is, that the body here, and the spiritual body hereafter, is a house or a dwelling. There is evidently here a change of the metaphor, which gives an apparent harshness to the construction. Earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, etc. The sense is, that we are subjected to so many trials and afflictions in the present body that the body is subjected to so many pains, and to so much suffering, as to make us earnestly desire to be invested with that body which shall be free from all susceptibility to suffering. ![]()
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