Invitation to the NC (Buss) n. 56

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56. That the Lord made the Natural Man in Himself Divine, to the end that He might be the First and the Last; and is thus able to enter with men even to their natural man, and teach this from the Word, and lead it. For He rose with the whole natural or external man, and did not leave anything whatever of it in the sepulchre; on which account He declared that He had bones and flesh, which spirits have not; and [hence it is] that He ate and drank natural food with His disciples, and indeed before their eyes. That He was Divine, He showed by passing through doors, and by becoming invisible, which would have been impossible, unless His natural man itself also had been made Divine.


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