What is the resurrection like? Paul says, like a tree that grows from the planted seed of our body; like the glory of a brighter star.
Or this, as Hamann puts it in his London notebooks, in a comment on Genesis 2:21-23: “Adam awakes as the dead of which David says, in order to praise the Lord (Psalm 88:10). With this joy will we from deep death-sleep ( Todensschlaf e ) awake and see the transformation of our bones and our flesh as Adam his rib. So will be the sleep of His beloved (Psalm 127:2).”
Perhaps this captures Hamann’s point: As Adam awoke to find a single bone transformed into a suitable companion to him, we will awake to discover our entire flesh similarly transformed and glorified.
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