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changes other things undergo, and that there is a kind of resurrection in nature as well as in man. It teaches us that such a thing as our resurrection may be possible, and that just as wonderful things are happening every day around us, of which we think but little. But this is not the explanation that Scripture gives us of the resurrection; it is one far more beautiful, and more read- ily understood. When, therefore, you ask how are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come? we would say, by the power of God and with the same
body. St. Paul explains this by a seed.
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