This hope of a literal bodily reward has been understood by God's people from earliest times. Abraham was promised that he, personally, would inherit the land of Canaan for ever, as surely as he had walked up and down in it (Gen. 13:17; see Study 3.4).
Tumaini hili la mwili halisi la kupewa thawabu lilieleweka na watu wa mungu tangu nyakati za kwanza. Abrahamu aliahidiwa kwamba, yeye binafsi atarithi nchi ya Kanaani milele, hakika kama alivyotembea juu ya nchi ndani yake (Mwa. 13:17; tazama somo la 3.4.).