Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1916 THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY 101
of the hair, is death, the loss of teeth is death, weakened
sight is death, and that deafness which so often troubles
the aged, is death, for all these are symptoms of the
"falling out of correspondence with environment."
In Moses we have an example of one who did not grow
old, whose "natural force was not abated, nor his eye
dimmed." In Abraham of one whose youth was renewed
after his body at 100 years of age had become "as good
as dead," but who lived to be
1757what
is now esteemed
as a lifetime being thus added. Moses is said to have
been of the House of Servants, while we are of the House
of Sons.
house
Is it not»a shame to us, who are of the latter
OF THE FAR MORE EXCELLENT GLORY
if we cannot attain even to that which was attained by
the house of Servants? for in that long-past age when
the Book of Job was written, even
then, they believed it
possible for a man to be brought back from the gates of
Sheol, and filled with abundance of life.
Even when,
"His iiesh is consumed out of sight,
And his bones that were hidden,stick out;
While his body is nearly dissolved,
And his soul is approaching the dead.
If an Angel is present with him
Interceding as one of his friends,
Then he pities and says, 'set him free,
I relieve from the descent to decayl'
And his iiesh is revived as in youth,
It returns as in childhood's estate"'
Yea, "his flesh shall be fresher than a child's, he shail
return to the days of his youth." If the House of Servants
could trust God to "heal ALL their diseases, so that
their youth was renewed like the eagle, how much more
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Job miii. 21-25.