really being able to picture this other thing or fully to comprehend it. That is just how it is with us. We live in the sphere of death; we can reach out in thought into the sphere of the Resurrection, try to make approximations. But it remains something different that we never quite comprehend. This is because of the boundary of death, which closes us in and within which we live. But we can look for approximations. One of these becomes apparent when we reflect that in the language of the Bible the