316. The Lord rose again not as to His spirit alone but also as to
His body, because when He was in the world He glorified His whole
Human, that is, made it Divine; for His soul which He had from the
Father was of Itself the very Divine, while His body became a
likeness of the soul, that is, of the Father, thus also Divine. This
is why He, differently from any man, rose again as to both;{1} and
this He made manifest to the disciples (who when they saw Him
believed that they saw a spirit), by saying:
See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me
and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye
behold Me having (Luke 24:36-39);
indicating thereby that He was a man both in respect to His spirit
and in respect to His body.
{Footnote 1} Man rises again only as to his spirit (n. 10593,
10594). The Lord alone rose again in respect also to His body
(n. 1729, 2083, 5078, 10825).
317. That it might be made clear that man lives after death and
enters in accordance with his life in the world either into heaven or
into hell, many things have been disclosed to me about the state of
man after death, which will be presented in due order in the
following pages, where the world of spirits is treated of.
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