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THE RESURRECTION
despair, an eternal monument of God's wrath. Now, Satan had defiled the walls of the palace, as well as the inhabitants of the palace, and so it is with us. Satan has not only defiled and ruined our souls, but our bodies too.
God changes the heart while we live, if we pray to him and obey him; but the body, the walls of the palace, are not made clean until death shakes them to pieces. Therefore St. Paul says, the body "is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural
