He who accepted death as the wages of sin--and by that act vindicated His sinlessness--was not able to be holden of death; His life had to swallow up death and did swallow it. And this is God's grace: that what we see as the end of all humanity, in so far as it is ours, is nothing else than the infirmity of age, the hospital, the battlefield, the graveyard, decomposition or ashes--but, in so far as it is the humanity of Jesus Christ, what we see at the same time just as definitely, nay, much more definitely, is nothing but resurrection and eternal life.