That which constitutes the spirit in man, both for others and itself, is the real man; and to this the elements and elementary powers contribute its bulk ([Greek: to] 'videri et tangi') wholly, and its phenomenal form in part, both as co-efficients, and as conditions.

Now as these are under a law of vanity and incessant change,--[Greek: ta mae onta, all' aei ginomena],--so must all be, to the production and continuance of which they are indispensable.

On this hangs the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, as an essential part of the doctrine of immortality;--on this the Scriptural (and only true and philosophical) sense of the soul, 'psyche' or life, as resulting from the continual assurgency of the spirit through the body;--and on this the begetting of a new life, a regenerate soul, by the descent of the divine Spirit on the spirit of man.

When the spirit by sanctification is fitted for an incorruptible body, then shall it be raised into a world of incorruption, and a celestial body shall burgeon forth thereto, the germ of which had been implanted by the redeeming and creative Word in this world.

Truly hath it been said of the elect:--They fall asleep in earth, but awake in heaven.