spiritual agility and nimbleness. Now, our bodies are lethargic, dull,
infirmities: Rev. 7:16-17, "Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." Rev. 21:4, "God will remove all of their sorrows, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever." In this respect their bodies may be said to be spiritual.
2. But, secondly, they may be said to be spiritual in respect of their spiritual agility and nimbleness. Now, our bodies are lethargic, dull, and heavy in their motion: and by this the soul is many times hindered in its lively operations; for when the soul would mount up on high, and busy herself about eternal objects, the body, like a lump of lead, keeps it down. But now, in this glorious state, the body shall put off all lethargy, dullness, and heaviness, and be exceeding agile, light, and swift in motion, far beyond the swiftest bird which flies, Isaiah 40:31; 1 Thes. 4:17.
I know not by what to set forth the agility of glorified bodies; a swift runner, a bird, a torrent—are too short to set forth their agility. Luther says that a glorified body shall move quicker than a thought. And Augustine says that the body will presently be here and there, wherever the soul would have it.
Certainly the speed and motion of glorified bodies will be extraordinary and incredible. A glorified saint desiring to be in such or such a place a thousand miles off or more, he will be there in such an incredible short time, that one calls it imperceptible, hardly to be discerned: in which respect their bodies may be said to be spiritual.
3. But, thirdly and lastly, they may be said to be spiritual, because of that perfect, full, absolute, and complete subjection that they shall