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DEAD, BURYING OF THE
A symbol of the painful ridding of the old dead
self by the ego. The moralised personality putting under the "old
Adam."
"Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father." Jesus answered,
"Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish
abroad the kingdom of God." - Luke ix. 59, 60.
This signifies the hankering after some time-worn association which
is, as it were, "father" of the personal state of mind, and which
effectually prevents the "kingdom of God," or first hand, interior,
religion, from being understood. The Christ enjoins the leaving of
such impedimenta to natural dissolution, and the turning of the soul
to truth and righteousness.
"Why seek ye the living among the dead?" (Luke xxiv. 5). We go to
look for Christ in the tomb of moribund creeds, and refuse to
believe that He can be anywhere else. We fail to see the Living
Christ standing in the midst of the mighty movements of the day and
directing them to diviner issues. - R. J. Campbell, Serm., The
Resurrection Life.
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