This is eternal life looked at in a doctrinal sense. The phrase implies a good deal, meaning that the life we receive is not from Jesus as on earth, but from Christ in resurrection. Hence we are one with a risen Christ, and our life has no link with earth (save the mortal bodies that confine it) but with the Lord in heaven. This, then, must be regarded as our home, as the place whence all life comes, and the earth as a strange country in which we are sojourning, seeking to show some thing of the power and beauty of this new and divine life.