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  • It was intended that a party which desired the re-election of a tribune should, by withdrawing some of its candidates at the last moment, [477] qualify him for reinvestiture with the magistracy.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • We have heard grand platitudes about 'the scattered dust being gathered from the four winds of heaven,' and so on, but the teaching of my text is that the contrast between the present physical frame and the future bodily environment is utter and complete; and that resurrection does not mean the assuming again of the body that is left behind and done with, but the reinvestiture of the man with another body.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

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