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

194 BIBLE REVIEW Feb.
wine (spirit). This is the completion of the work of regeneration;
the redemption of the body. The Divine
Marriage is the union of the two wills-Divine and Human
by means of which the body can be transmuted,
indrawn and resorbed, so that "all that is mortal is
swallowed up of life."
The earthen vessel which is of
the first Adam, "of the
earth, earthy," is changed by the marriage union with
the Second Adam into the pure gold of the Divine Nature.
Being married to him who was raised from the
dead, we are sharers in His resurrection-life. United
with him; of the same plant with him, over whom
death has no dominion, we also are made free from the
law of death, thru the Body of Christ, whose Body our
bodies are members, so that we are "bone of his bone,
and flesh of his fiesh." Our earthly tent-dwelling is
transmuted into a "house which is of heaven:"
"eternal in the heavens."
A BUILDING OF GOD
This Divine Marriage is not that which is spoken of as
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB,
for those who are married tothe Christ now, become
members of his body, that is,
MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF THE BRIDEGROOM.
For the Lamb of the Apocalypse is the Christ, Head and
Body, which as Paul says, is "not one member but
many." This is indicated in the change of the gender
in the original Greek. For when John the Baptist, points
out Jesus the personal Christ, as the Lamb of God, he
uses the masculine gender 6
dpwos, as applicable to one
person, but John the Revelator uses the common gender
to dpvwv, as applicable to the many.'
We know also that the Body is one with the Temple,
rqdhater ii. 4-5.i'A living stone unto whom coming as living stones."