body, Luther compares death and resurrection to the process of birth; the head has already emerged, the body is drawn after the head and follows. Christ has already been reborn to eternal life. Those who are his, follow after him.98 How long is it, then, from the time of our own individual death until the eschatological raising of the dead? What ideas come to me when I think about ‘death’s long night’, as the hymn puts it? Luther does not answer by projecting the time and space of the living on to