Ques. 1.-Please explain Luke 22:44, "His sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood." Is it meant it was blood, or only like blood f

Ans.-There could be little meaning in saying the sweat resembled blood, and was not really that. If we read with the emphasis upon the blood, the meaning is clear:"His sweat was as great drops of blood," instead of like drops of water, as in ordinary cases. This gives meaning to the passage, solemn and tender. From a toiling man the sweat pours like water, from the Lord, like blood. This seems to be a sort of anticipation of His death. He was to give up His life, and even in anticipation of it, the anguish is so intense that the blood oozes out. Was there ever sorrow like His ?

Ques. 2.-How can we reconcile Job's saying, " In my flesh I shall see God, and 2 Cor. 5:1, 2, our house which is from heaven " ? Is our resurrection body the same body we have now, except the mortality and all marks of sin withdrawn, or is it another body, as the plant of wheat is different from the grain that was sown ?

Ans.-While the passage quoted from Job is frequently used to prove the resurrection of the body, it does not necessarily refer to that. Indeed the connection would seem to show that Job was looking for vindication on the earth, in his "latter day." Our Lord's resurrection is clearly foretold, as in Ps. 16:, but it is hardly the custom of Scripture to speak so definitely in the Old Testament of the resurrection of the body, as this would be. But even did it so refer, there would be no contradiction with the passage in 2 Corinthians. There it is the body suitable for a heavenly habitation, as contrasted with the earthly. It is the spiritual, as contrasted with the natural, in 1 Cor. 15:The important fact connected with the resurrection of the body is that its identity is preserved. Its powers, beauty, and all else will as much transcend those of our present bodies as the blossoming field exceeds in beauty the "bare grain" that was planted. But the identity is preserved, so that there will be recognition and all that we are taught to crave, as connected with that.