and we (believers who may then be living, 1 Thes. 4:17) shall be changed.” Nothing but the hard necessities of an unscriptural theory, which is destitute of direct proof but rests upon reasonings and inferences, could deny that the passage above quoted from Rom. 8:23 expresses a personal and eager expectation. No ingenuity can bend the passage to the expression of mere corporate belief in a far-off event. “For our conversation (citizenship) is in heaven: from whence also we LOOK for the Saviour,
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