"As the early fathers used to express it, when a baby is born it is usually born head first, but when the head is born the whole body follows naturally, for it is the birth of the head that is the most difficult part. Now Christ the head of the body is already resurrected, the first-born of the new creation, and as such he is the pledge and guarantee that we who are incorporated with him as his body will rise with him and be born into the new creation in our physical as well as our spiritual existence." —Thomas F. Torrance in Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ