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But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
"That which thou sowest, is not quickened except it die." If there be "joy among the angels of God, over one sinner that repenteth," why not when the whole human race, to the last man, has passed successfully up into a higher class in the great school? I am constantly turning back to a thought that I have passed by. Let me now return to the consideration of Buddhism as a religion.
Paul says, when speaking of the resurrection, 'That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. Now the truth is, that the seed from which the harvest springs, does not die. It simply expands and unfolds. His doctrine was right, but the notion on which he grounded his illustration of it was an error. But it answered his purpose. And there is a sense in which seed dies.
But rather the metaphor of the Apostle is the true one, 'That which thou sowest, that shalt thou also reap. All your life a seed-time, all your life a harvest-time too, for the seed which I sow today is the seed which I have reaped from all my former sowings, and so cause and consequence go rolling on in life in extricable entanglement, issuing out in this, that whatever a man does lives on in him, and that each moment inherits the whole consequence of his former life.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive But some men will say, 'How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? "Fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die; and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain, it may chance of wheat or of some other grain.
Thou fool! what thou sowest is not quickened except it die: and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body which shall be afterwards, but the bare grain, perhaps of wheat, or of some of the other seeds: but God giveth it a body as he pleaseth, and to each of the seeds its peculiar body.
Well, it is something as illusive as that." He paused again, dreaming, lost in a reverie, then, just above a whisper, murmured: "'That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die,... and she, Angele... died." "You could not have been mistaken?" said Presley. "You were sure that there was something? Imagination can do so much and the influence of the surroundings was strong.
Can you not see that whatsoever a man sowest, that shall he reap; and that he will reap in the field where he sows, and not in some other; and that God is dealing fairly, justly, tenderly, truly, with you in giving you the results at which you aim, and not the results at which you do not aim?
Thy hand is cold; their completion, and the enjoyment the completion yields, are for another! Thou sowest, and thy follower reaps; thou buildest, thy successor holds; thou plantest, and thine heir sits beneath the shadow of thy trees, "Neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te, praeter invisas cupressos, Ulla brevem dominum sequetur!"
'The organism is transformed and dissolved. 'That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. They are both representing death as a phase in the process of nature, but it is not till we grasp the similarity of the thought that we fully realize the difference in the outlook and the emotion.
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