The Post-Resurrection Christ summoned Thomas to test his wounds himself:
Christ's glorified body had scars. I am reading all I can about this now.
Aquinas' Summa addresses this here: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4054.htm
Spurgeon preaches on this topic here: http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0254.htm
Bede gives 5 major reasons why Christ will retain his wounds in heaven:
My question is: Why some wounds and not others? Did God retain only those wounds to be visible in the body of KJesus necessary to exalt his work on the Cross?
For instance, Isa 52:14 also speaks of his visage being scarred. Yet, these scars do not appear to be seen in his glorified state:
Also, Jesus was circumcised. That also is a wound. Is He now still so in heaven, since this is proof that He obeyed all of the law?
Do any of the Puritans or Church Fathers discuss why some wounds but not others would be visible? And would this also be true of the martyrs as well?
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Our Lord said to Thomas (John 20:27): "Put in thy finger hither, and see My hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into My side, and be not faithless but believing."
Christ's glorified body had scars. I am reading all I can about this now.
Aquinas' Summa addresses this here: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4054.htm
Spurgeon preaches on this topic here: http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/0254.htm
Bede gives 5 major reasons why Christ will retain his wounds in heaven:
Saint Bede (commenting on Luke 24) taught that Christ kept His scars for five reasons. Here the five reasons:
First and chiefly for Christ’s own glory. Christ “wears [His scars] as an everlasting trophy of His victory.”
Second, these scars confirm the hearts of the disciples in the faith in His Resurrection. The scars increase our faith.
Third, Christ retained his scars so “that when He pleads for us with the Father, He may always show the manner of death He endured for us.” They have propitiatory signification in Heaven!
Fourth, Christ kept His scars so “that He may convince those redeemed in His blood, how mercifully they have been helped, as He exposes before them the traces of the same death.” This reveals that He is the Divine Mercy of God!
Fifth, Christ will appeal to His wounds so that during the Judgment Day “He may upbraid them with their just condemnation.” The holy wounds will silently sentence the damned to Hell.
My question is: Why some wounds and not others? Did God retain only those wounds to be visible in the body of KJesus necessary to exalt his work on the Cross?
For instance, Isa 52:14 also speaks of his visage being scarred. Yet, these scars do not appear to be seen in his glorified state:
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Also, Jesus was circumcised. That also is a wound. Is He now still so in heaven, since this is proof that He obeyed all of the law?
Do any of the Puritans or Church Fathers discuss why some wounds but not others would be visible? And would this also be true of the martyrs as well?
Saint Augustine wrote, “Perhaps in that kingdom we shall see on the bodies of the Martyrs the traces of the wounds which they bore for Christ’s name: because it will not be a deformity, but a dignity in them; and a certain kind of beauty will shine in them, in the body, though not of the body” (De Civ. Dei xxii).
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