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I. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST IS A PIVOTAL FACT. The key-stone of Christ's religion. All turns upon this. Either Jesus rose, or else He is an impostor, and imposture in one thing makes Him false in all. Take away the resurrection, and there is no link left between heaven and earth: preaching is a lie, faith is idle, happy dying is a delusion, and happy living is a greater fiction still. But, with St. Paul, we may challenge the world to disprove the assertion in the text.

II. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST WAS A MIRACLE. Otherwise impossible. Nature possesses no power to raise a dead body. But once admit that the work is God's, and all difficulty disappears.

III. WHAT THE RESURRECTION BODY WAS. The same palpable and substantial frame which quivered on the cross. I argue this —

1. From the fact that He prophesied His own personal resurrection, in His own proper identity.

2. From the fact that the disciples recognized that identity, though reluctantly.

3. From the fact that He recognized His own identity.

(T. Armitage, D. D.)

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KJV: And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

WEB: Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.