There are three general resurrectionsrevealed to man on the earth; one of these is past, and the other two are future.
The third and last resurrection will take place more than a thousand years afterwards, and will embrace all the human family not included in the former resurrectionsor translations.
But I now come to the last, because infinitely the most important part of my subject--the resurrection for the sake of which all the other resurrections exist--the resurrection unto Life.
But to return to the resurrections we see around us in nature.
See the first Lecture, on the Resurrections of Spring.
Of this it is that the processions of Nature, in the resurrections of birth and the aërial ascension of clouds,--of this that the upward processions of our thoughts are commemorative!
Accustomed, from their earliest days, to look at this great question through the medium of Christendom's standards of doctrine and confessions of faith, the idea of two resurrections has never once entered their minds.
Pray, Babbalanja, talk not of resurrections to a demi-god.
Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto, unless resurrections are reserved for maltreated brutes.
In doing so they, either ignorantly or wilfully, wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction; for any one can see at a glance that no such thing as two resurrections is even hinted at.
It is the trick of Beelzebub to deceive souls by causing them to overlook the fact that this first resurrection that made men blessed and holy is of a spiritual nature and to fix their hopes in two literal resurrections at the end.
If people insist on these resurrections being real ones, did we ever see dead persons resuscitate themselves, and by their own power?
All the lives of the saints are full of resurrections of the dead; thick volumes might be composed on the subject.
All these momentary resurrections may serve to explain how the revenans of Hungary come out of their graves, then return to them, after having caused themselves to be seen and felt for some time.
Had these men but a few weeks previously seen Lazarus raised from the corruption of the grave--to say nothing of other resurrections from the dead?
This same holy Father bears an equally unquestionable testimony to several resurrections of the dead, of which he himself had been an eye-witness.
Resurrections from the dead, and ascensions into heaven, are generally acknowledged to be solar features, as the history of many solar heroes agree in this particular.
Other resurrectionsof the righteous dead followed.
Two general resurrections are specified; these we may distinguish as the first and the final, or as the resurrection of the just and that of the unjust respectively.
Where are resurrections to be found in the history of current supernaturalism?
Have not heathen writers pronounced actual resurrections from the dead to be impossibilities?
Compare the account of the resurrection of Lazarus, or that of our Lord himself, with the resurrections in the Apocryphal Gospels, and mark the difference.
He says: "The Attiuoindarons practise resurrections of the dead, principally of persons who have deserved well of their country by their remarkable services, so that the memory of illustrious and valiant men revives in a certain way in others.
In this way an indefinite succession of deaths and resurrections is supposed to take place.
Specify the general resurrections spoken of in the scriptures.
The apostles, as we shall see, ceased not to testify of the genuineness of their Lord's resurrection, nor did they fail to proclaim the resurrections of the future.
As we have together mourned our dead on earth let us rejoice together in all the great resurrections now and hereafter.
The resurrectionsof the springtime cause an epidemic of gardening fever that prevails until intenser sunshine discourages exertions.
Certainly there here appeared one of theresurrections of Europe.
Other resurrections [such as that of Lazarus] were resurrections to the old conditions of earthly life; the resurrection of Christ was the revelation of new life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resurrections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
