My only concern is, to shew, that these passages do not infer, that the body of Christ after the resurrection was no real body.
But the Gentleman thinks these passages prove that the disciples saw no real body, but an apparition.
But the apparitions of the Old Testament which were signs of the manifestation of Christ were not in a real body, but by visions in the imagination, as is plain from Isa.
Hence it would seem that the apparition of the Son of God in the world was not in a real body, but only in imagination.
Hence it was more fitting that the apparitions of the old Testament should be in appearance only, being figures; and that the apparition of the Son of God in the world should be in a real body, being the thing prefigured by these figures.
Son of God to assume human nature, He must consequently have assumed a real body.
The object in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is the body of Christ,--a real body; but the necessary predicates of reality are wanting to it.
I distinguish a real body from an imaginary one only by this, that the former produces corporeal effects, involuntary effects, upon me.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "real body" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
