When astrology ousted alchemy as the key to all religions, Christ and his disciples were identified with the sun and the constellations of the zodiac.
One interpretation of Luther argues that the resurrected body acquires the attribute of ubiquity and mingles imperceptibly with the elements of the eucharist.
Dodd observes that in the plan of the Gospel it looks back to the water of life in chapter 4 and forward to the resurrection announced at 5:29 1953a: 218—29.