( I see some fine figs in the garden; come, take me on thy shoulders, and we will pluck them and eat them. } By and by the lord of the garden came, and missing the fruit from the fig trees, began to make inquiry after them. The lame one, to excuse himself, pleaded, I have no legs to walk with; ' and the blind one, to excuse himself, pleaded, "I have no eyes to see with.* What did the lord of the garden do?
He caused the lame to mount upon the back of the blind, and judged them both as one." So likewise will God re-unite soul and body, and judge them both as one together; as it is written (Ps. 1. 4), " He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people. " He shall call to the heavens from above, that alludes to the soul; "and to the earth, that He may judge His people," that refers to the body