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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART IV
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In no sense of the word can souls, which descended in Christ's train ('chorus sacer animarum et Christi comitatus') from Heaven, be said 'resurgere'.

Resurrection is always and exclusively resurrection in the body;--not indeed a rising of the 'corpus' [Greek: phantastikon], that is, the few ounces of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and phosphate of lime, the 'copula' of which that gave the form no longer exists,--and of which Paul exclaims;--'Thou fool! not this', &c .-- but the 'corpus' [Greek: hypostatikon, ae noumenon].
But there is yet another and worse wresting of the text.

Who that reads Lacunza, p.

108, last line but twelve, would not understand that the Apocalypt had asserted this enthronement of the souls of the Gentile and Judaeo-Christian Martyrs which he beheld in the train or suite of the descending Messiah; and that he had first seen them in the descent, and afterward saw thrones assigned to them?
Whereas the sentence precedes, and has positively no connection with these souls.

The literal interpretation of the symbols c.xx.v.4, is, "I then beheld the Christian religion the established religion of the state throughout the Roman empire;--emperors, kings, magistrates, and the like, all Christians, and administering laws in the name of Christ, that is, receiving the Scriptures as the supreme and paramount law.


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