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Body of Heaven

BODY OF HEAVEN

The King James Version translates the Hebrew idiom, etsem ha-shamayim, by "the body of heaven" (Exodus 24:10). A more correct rendering is given in the Revised Version (British and American), "the very heaven," taking the word `etsem in its idiomatic use as an intensive, which is derived from its literal meaning, "bone," as "strength," "substance," and then as "self" (compare Job 21:23); the substance of the blue, unclouded sky, hence, the clear sky itself.

Greek

1577. ekklesia -- an assembly, a (religious) congregation
... and to God, the being the (the mystical ) -- ie the universal (total) body of believers ...
or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both ...
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1553. ekdemeo -- to be away from home, absent
... 1553 ("being absent") portrays believers who are still alive as being "away from
home" (heaven), ie because still living in a , body (2 Cor 5:6). At Christ's ...
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Library

Of Christ's Ascension into Heaven.
... it is wont to give offense to certain parties, either impious Gentiles or heretics,
that we should believe in the assumption of an earthly body into heaven. ...
/.../a treatise on faith and the creed /chapter 6 of christs ascension into.htm

Against the Platonists, who Argue from the Physical Weight of the ...
... Book XXII. Chapter 11."Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight
of the Elements that an Earthly Body Cannot Inhabit Heaven. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 11 against the platonists who.htm

Christ, the Head and the Body; Owing to the Union of the Natures ...
... in the Person of Christ, He Both Remained in Heaven, and Walked About on Earth;
How the One Christ Could Ascend to Heaven; The Head, and the Body, the One ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 60 xxxi christ the head.htm

The Apostle Paul could Know the Third Heaven and Paradise, but not ...
... Book IV. Chapter 12 [VIII.]"The Apostle Paul Could Know the Third Heaven
and Paradise, But Not Whether He Was in the Body or Not. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 12 viii the apostle paul.htm

Another Error of victor's, that Infants Dying Unbaptized May ...
... 10 [IX.]"Another Error of Victor's, that Infants Dying Unbaptized May Attain to
the Kingdom of Heaven. Another, that the Sacrifice of the Body of Christ Must ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 10 ix another error of.htm

On the Soul and Body and the Passion of the Lord.
... Therefore God sent down from heaven His incorporeal Son to take flesh upon Him ... His
person, united that which death by the separation of the body had dispersed. ...
/.../v on the soul and body.htm

Days of Heaven Upon Earth
... Title Page. THE DAYS OF HEAVEN. JANUARY 1. "Redeeming the time" (Eph. v. 16). ... xviii.
19). JANUARY 6. "The body is not one member, but many" (I. Cor. xii. 14). ...
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Read the Book on the Resurrection by St. Methodius
... knew how to observe the niceties of language, when he says, "I know such a man caught
up to the third heaven; and I know such a man, whether in the body or out ...
/.../methodius/from the discourse on the resurrection/part iii read the book.htm

Wyclif -- Christ's Real Body not in the Eucharist
... less, of Christ's manhood, it lieth not in your power to come there nigh, neither
to touch it, for it is ascended into heaven in a spiritual body, which He ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume i/wyclif christs real body.htm

The Resurrection of Christ Proves that the Body Rises.
... by every kind of proof persuaded that it was Himself, and in the body, they asked ...
this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as He ...
/.../chapter ix the resurrection of christ.htm

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