dispelled that notion saying: " See by My hands and feet that it is I, Myself; handle and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see Me to have." St. John tells us the Apostles and disciples " as yet knew not the Scriptures that He must rise again from the dead." They did not expect and could hardly believe His body had arisen, though the fact that His ignominious death had not shaken their faith in Him seems to prove they looked for His return in some spiritual, ghostly shape. But now their error is corrected, for there is Jesus as in life standing in their midst. Some wondrous change has taken place indeed, for lo! He comes and goes, the doors being closed, but still it is the solid human body of the Saviour, wounded in hands and feet and side. And not His body only but His soul, for by eating, conversing and expounding Scripture He shows Himself endowed with vegetative, sentient, and rational existence. And not His body and soul alone, but His divinity, too, as was proved at the sea of Tiberias, where He repeated for the weary fishermen the miraculous draught of fishes. Certainly on the score of knowledge of the event, our witnesses are beyond reproach. But were they over-credulous, perhaps? " Oh foolish and slow of heart to believe " were the words with which Christ Himself upbraided their incredulity. For when the women returned to tell of the empty tomb, of the angels and the folded cloths therein, the Apostles rejected their words as idle tales, nor did they credit even Peter and John, nor Magdalen who came just then from speak-
