Monday, January 28, 2008

And of the life of the world to come

AELW1:333

"Therefore we should not despair when we see that death has been transmitted from Adam to the entire human race. We must undergo this death because we are sinners, but we shall not remain in death. We have the hope concerning the divine plan and providence that God plans to do away with this death, just as He has begun to do through the promise of the blessed Seed; and the examples of Abel and Enoch point in the same direction. Thus through hope we are in possession of the first fruits of immortality, as Paul says (Rom. 8:23): “We are saved by hope,” until its fullness appears on the Last Day, when we shall experience and see the life in which we believed and for which we hoped."

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