Evidence for Bodily Resurrection
And what would they say, if they looked upon the nurturers of the infant, or the development of its age, or the completion of the years, or the increase of the body?
In order that I might leave aside the wonders that have been fulfilled upon the earth, let them observe the revivals of the dead, the symbols of suffering, the traces of the scourgings, the bruises of the wounds, the torn sides, the marks of the nails, the pouring out of the blood, the signs of death, and to say the whole thing, the resurrection of his own body.
And indeed, if anyone examines the birth of the body, he would clearly find how, having been born in Bethlehem, he was laid in a manger, and even if in Egypt he was nourished for a time by some because of the plot of the madman Herod, and even if in Nazareth, having become a man, he grew up. For the tabernacle of the Word and God is not the same, through which he beheld the divine...
Greek
De anima contra Arianos (fragmenta) ΠΕΡΙ ΨΥΧΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΑΡΕΙΑΝΩΝ 10 Τί δ' ἂν εἴποιεν εἰς τὰς τοῦ βρέφους ἀναβλέψαντες ἀνατροφὰς, ἢ τὴν τῆς ἡλικίας ἀνάδοσιν, ἢ τὴν ἐπίτασιν τῶν χρόνων, ἢ τὴν τοῦ σώματος αὔξην; Ἵνα δὲ παρῶ λέγειν τὰς ἐπὶ ἐδάφους ἐκπληρωθείσας θαυματουργίας, ὁράτωσαν τὰς τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναβιώσεις, τὰ τοῦ πάθους σύμβολα, τὰ τῶν μαστίγων ἴχνη, τοὺς τῶν πληγῶν μώλωπας, τὰς τετρωμένας πλευρὰς, τοὺς τῶν ἥλων τύπους, τὴν τοῦ αἵματος ἔγχυσιν, τὰ τοῦ θανάτου σημεῖα, καὶ τὸ σύμπαν εἰπεῖν, αὐτὴν τὴν τοῦ ἰδίου σώματος ἀνάστασιν. 11 Καὶ μὴν εἴ τις εἰς τὴν τοῦ σώματος γέννησιν ἀφορᾷ, προδήλως εὑρήσειεν ἂν ὡς ἐν τῇ Βηθλεὲμ τεχθεὶς ἐσπαργανώθη, κἀν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ χρόνοις ἐτράφη τισὶν ἕνεκεν τῆς τοῦ ἀλάστορος ἐπιβουλῆς Ἡρώδου, κἂν τῇ Ναζαρὲτ ἀνδρωθεὶς ηὐξήθη. 12 Οὐ γὰρ ταὐτόν ἐστιν ἡ σκηνὴ τοῦ Λόγου καὶ Θεοῦ, δι' ἧς τὴν θείαν ἐθεώρει
About this text
On the Soul against the Arians attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Original English Translation — new OET from PG 18 Greek.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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