Which doctrine, if it be not true, why, may some say, did not our Saviour contradict it, and teach the contrary? Nay, why does He use on divers occasions such forms of speech as seem to confirm it? To this I answer, that first, where Christ saith (Luke 24:39), “A spirit hath not flesh and bone,” though He show that there be spirits, yet He denies not that they are bodies. And where St. Paul says (1 Cor.