Anf-01 viii.viii.ix Pg 2
Comp. Luke xxiv. 32, etc.
and He let them handle Him, and showed them the prints of the nails in His hands. And when they were by every kind of proof persuaded that it was Himself, and in the body, they asked Him to eat with them, that they might thus still more accurately ascertain that He had in verity risen bodily; and He did eat honey-comb and fish. And when He had thus shown them that there is truly a resurrection of the flesh, wishing to show them this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as He had said that our dwelling-place is in heaven), “He was taken up into heaven while they beheld,”2634 2634
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 24
VERSE (32) - Ps 39:3; 104:34 Pr 27:9,17 Isa 50:4 Jer 15:16; 20:9; 23:29
