the mystical temple of god 668 The first quality of Impassibility will not only protect the glorious body from all corruption for all eternity, but completely from all petty annoyance. John prophesied this when he said: “And there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, [for] the old order has passed away” (Rev 21:4). The second quality, [Subtlety,] will confer on the glorious body the power of penetrating any other body, just as a ray of the sun penetrates glass but neither shatters nor damages it. The third quality, Agility, will give the glorious body the ability of moving most swiftly in every direction. Isaiah predicted this saying: “They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar as with eagles’ wings” (Is 40:31). The fourth quality, Clarity, will render the glorious body brighter than any light: “the blessed in heaven shall shine,” (what Daniel foresaw) “brightly like the splendor of the firmament, like the stars forever” (Dan 12:3). Paul shows us an example of this glory of the blessed body in the glorified Body of Christ the Lord Himself when he writes to the Philippians: “We also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will change our lowly body to conform with His glorified body” (Phil 3:20-21).Therefore, just as “Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over Him:” (Rom 6:9) so this gift of His is rightly to be expected also by us. Christ, rising from the dead, came out from an untouched tomb, while the doors were closed, appeared in the midst of the disciples: and so this gift of His is rightly to be expected also by us. Christ rising from the dead gloriously appeared in distant places, at short intervals, both to His most beloved Mother, and to some very holy women, as well as to His most dear apostles, and to the disciples on their way to a village: and so this gift of His is rightly to be expected also by us. Christ, rising from the dead, was seen, I believe, with no different face than that which on the mountain of Tabor “shone like the sun” (Mt 17:2); and so this gift of His is rightly to be expected also by us. which thence divides into four heads.’ One may compare the four gifts of the bodies of the blessed with these four rivers.”
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