Christ has not only conquered sin and death in Himself, but in and for some of our kind. These, thus raised, are the evidences of His victory and the pledges of our resurrection. They are the first fruits, with Himself, of them that slept. As Enoch and Elijah are types and assurances of those who will be changed at the last day, so these trophies of Christ are the sure tokens of His victory and type of our own resurrection. With these He ascended up on high, and made a show of them. If a man die, shall he live again? asks Job. This question is sublimely and satisfactorily answered in the text. Our assurance in Christ, is that we shall have an eternal life of body, soul, and spirit--painless and deathless. He came not to destroy, but that we might have life more abundantly.
--by Rev. Joseph Wild, D. D.
