We1 therefore believe that our bodies too will rise. For even though they decay, yet they perish not, for their remains earth receives and keeps, like seed nourished and combined with the richer soil. Again like bare grain it is sown, and by the command of God Who created blooming, is it raised clothed and glorious, not before it die and is dissolved and commingled with earth: thus have we believed and not idly the resurrection of the body. But even though it be for a season dissolved by reason of the disobedience at the beginning, it is put in the smelting place of the earth, again to be re-formed, not this decaying body but pure and decaying no longer; since to each body will its own soul be given back, and the soul clad herein will not mourn but will rejoice, abiding pure, habiting with a spouse upright and not treacherous2, in all things having with all …3 will receive … will receive the body not changed, neither removed from passion or disease, nor glorious, but as they died, in sin or in righteousness: and such as they were, such will they put them on when they live again, and such as they were in unbelief, such will they faithfully be judged.
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c This extract is preserved by S. John Damascene, in his Parallela Sacra in the Rupefucaldine Ms. which gives this work fuller than the Vatican Codex from which Le Quien edited the work. Halloix first edited it in his Eccles. Orient. Script. t. ii. 496. See Le Quien’s mention of this Ms. t. ii. 730; and likewise his mention of the extract itself under Lit. A tit. 74 (ii. 769). ↩
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d There is a blank in the Ms. which has preserved us this piece, as happened when the copyist could not read any words in the Ms. he was copying, or if they have wasted away. ↩