Section 7
or broken. If one of the Lord's bones could be broken, it would mean that the Lord's resurrec tion life could be hurt and broken by death.
By referring to Genesis 2, we can easily see the significance of bone—that it signifies resur rection life. One scriptural principle is the prin ciple of the first mention. According to this principle, the first mention of an item in the Bible determines its meaning throughout the Scrip tures. By applying this principle to the bones of the Gospel of John, we see that the first place which mentions something about a bone is Gen esis 2, where a rib was taken out of Adam and made into a bride. Eve is a type of the church, Adam is a type of Christ, and the bone is a type of the resurrection life of Christ. As Eve came out of Adam's bone, so the church comes out of Christ's resurrection life. Eve was made from a bone, and the church is produced by the divine life. Thus, the bone is a type of resurrection life. The unbroken bone of the Lord Jesus indicates that He is the resurrection life which cannot be broken by death. Hence, bone is a symbol, a fig ure, of the Lord's resurrection life, which noth ing can break. The Lord's side was pierced, but not one of His bones was broken. This signifies that though the Lord's physical life was killed,