4. Translate, "When Christ shall be manifested who is our life
(Joh 11:25; 14:6, 19),
then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory"
(1Pe 4:13).
The spiritual life our souls have now in Him shall be extended
to our bodies
(Ro 8:11).
then--and not till then. Those err who think to find a perfect Church
before then. The true Church is now militant. Rome errs in trying to
set up a Church now regnant and triumphant. The true Church shall be
visible as a perfect and reigning Church, when Christ shall be visibly
manifested as her reigning Head. Rome having ceased to look for Him in
patient faith, has set up a visible mockhead, a false anticipation of
the millennial kingdom. The Papacy took to itself by robbery that glory
which is an object of hope, and can only be reached by bearing the cross
now. When the Church became a harlot, she ceased to be a bride who goes
to meet her Bridegroom. Hence the millennial kingdom ceased to be
looked for [AUBERLEN].
JFB.
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