Now what are we to say about these different conceptions of “an interim corporeality”? So far as we have been able to grasp the question, we believe it must be said that there is scarcely any tenable ground for taking such “an interim corporeality” for granted. It is only a vague surmise which its supporters have doubtless endeavoured to substantiate partly by arguments and partly by the evidence of Scripture. As concerns the former, on the one hand they have thought that the soul could not exist,