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To: 1000 silverlings; wagglebee; RnMomof7
he/she interpreted Hebrews 12:1 for us.

He.

All I did was to point out that cloud is usually a reference to heaven, and that witness and martyr is the same word in Greek. And that the early saints were near to the one martyrs.

3,114 posted on 01/14/2010 5:08:01 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; RnMomof7; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD
All I did was to point out that cloud is usually a reference to heaven, and that witness and martyr is the same word in Greek. And that the early saints were near to the one martyrs

Post 2680. No need to apologize, it was fascinating, and I enjoyed it immensely

"The saints hear God, — and you and me, too,— but not with their bodies. How, we don’t know, but we know even from the scripture that they do: “we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head” (Hebrews 12:1).

The fragmentation, scattering or any kind of destruction of the body will not prevent God, Who made Adam from mud, from restoring the dead to their glorified bodies. The relics are reminders that this will happen, but we should not imagine that God will mechanically reassemble the saint from his relics"

3,115 posted on 01/14/2010 5:17:20 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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