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Phases of Faith

CHAPTER V
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Of James and Jude there are two epistles, but it is doubtful whether either of these is of the twelve apostles; and neither of them declare themselves eyewitnesses to Christ's resurrection.

In short, Peter and John are the only two.

Of these however, Peter does not attest the _bodily_, but only the _spiritual_, resurrection of Jesus; for he says that Christ was[28] "put to death in flesh, but made alive in spirit," 1 Pet iii.

18: yet if this verse had been lost, his opening address (i.

3) would have seduced me into the belief that Peter taught the bodily resurrection of Jesus.


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