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First Article:
Christ rose again with the same true body, otherwise His resurrection
would not have been true; for that is said to rise again, which has
fallen.[2298]
Second Article:
Christ's body rose again entire, because it was of the same nature
after His resurrection as it was before death, although glorified.
Christ also took again all His blood, morally speaking, all that is
necessary for the integrity of the body.
Third Article:
Christ arose with a glorified body; for, the mystery of the
redemption being completed by Christ's passion and death, in the
resurrection His soul at once communicated its glory to its reunited
body.[2299]
Fourth Article:
It was most fitting for Christ to rise again with scars,[2300]
as permanent marks of His victory, so as to convince His disciples
that the same crucified body rose again; that when He pleads for us
with the Father, He may always show what manner of death He endured
for us; that on the Judgment Day, He may manifest these scars to
all that are to be judged, to the just, indeed, as a motive for their
love and gratitude, but to the reprobates for their reproof and shame.
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