"Let us have the same thoughts about our dead and about our bodies. This food of worms will not remain dust; but it will live again, because we hear Scripture saying that in the eyes of God death is some childish sport and is also such for all Christians, who believe in the God who gives life to the dead (Rom. 4:17) and regards the deceased as living.
This is the Christian doctrine and the wisdom of God, the science of the saints, the sublime knowledge beyond the comprehension of the world: “Death, where is your sting? Where is your victory?” (1 Cor. 15:55.) In the midst of death we are in life. “I shall not die” (Ps. 118:17). Let him who has this skill give thanks to God. But we must take pains that we not only speak of it theoretically but cling to it in fact and with our whole heart."
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