Philippians and Philemon - MR Vincent - 1906.pdf

III. 21] THE BODY OF CHRIST'S GLORY 121
As ^. denoted change of outward fash-
see Win. Ixvi. 3 g.)
ion,.denotes conformation to what is essential, permanent,
and characteristic in a body which is the appropriate
investiture of Christ's glorified condition — a 'spiritual body':
a conformity which is inward and thorough, and not merely
superficial. On the union of Christians with the spiritual life
of Christ which belongs to the heavenly world (Rom. vi. 5), rests
their hope that they shall be saved in his life and conformed to
its heavenly investiture. (See Rom. v. 9, 10, viii. 10, 11.)
. Theol.
Eng. §§ 19, 34.) The phrase 'body of his glory' signifies the
body in which he is clothed in his glorified state, and which is the
proper investiture of his heavenly glory ; the form in which his
perfect spiritual being is manifest. This glory is peculiarly and
originally the glory of the incorruptible God, and therefore belongs
to an embodiment which retains no trace of earthly materi-
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ality or corruption, but is altogether informed and determined by
the higher vital principle (/) and is its appropriate organ
I Cor. XV. 44). Accordingly this glorified
body is no longer in antithesis to the /. It is the investiture
which the forms for itself, and which perfectly reveals it.
In the resurrection, through which, as completed by the ascension,
Christ received this body, he became wholly 7€