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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 24:36-43


“Peace Be unto You”

Luke 24:36-43

Jesus Himself! We need nothing else when we are terrified and afraid. You may be fearing the consequences of your sin; fearing the approach of your enemy; fearing the future with its unknown contingencies; but Jesus Himself is the antidote of fear. He keeps the soul that trusts Him within the double doors of peace. See Isaiah 26:3.

This was not an apparition, but the clothing of the spiritual body, which evidently repeats the general outlines of the physical body, though in a rarer and more subtle substance. Does this incident not teach us that when we also are clothed in the spiritual body we shall not be wholly dissimilar from what we are today? We shall be recognizable by our beloved and they by us, 1 Corinthians 15:44.

What was it that made those hands and feet distinctly His own, except that the print of the nails was in them? John 20:27. “In the midst of the throne… a Lamb as it had been slain, ” Revelation 5:6.

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