Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There are some who suppose that resurrection can be predicated\r\nonly of the body, and therefore they contend that this\r\nfirst resurrection (of the Apocalypse) is a bodily resurrection.\r\nFor, say they, \"to rise again\" can only be said of things that\r\nfall. Now, bodies fall in death.<a id=\"FNanchor_729_729\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_729_729\">[729]</a> There cannot, therefore, be\r\na resurrection of souls, but of bodies. But what do they say\r\nto the apostle who speaks of a resurrection of souls? For\r\ncertainly it was in the inner and not the outer man that those\r\nhad risen again to whom he says, \"If ye have risen with\r\nChrist, mind the things that are above.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_730_730\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_730_730\">[730]</a> The same sense he\r\nelsewhere conveyed in other words, saying, \"That as Christ\r\nhas risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also\r\nmay walk in newness of life.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_731_731\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_731_731\">[731]</a> So, too, \"Awake thou that\r\nsleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee\r\nlight.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_732_732\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_732_732\">[732]</a> As to what they say about nothing being able to\r\nrise again but what falls, whence they conclude that resurrection\r\npertains to bodies only, and not to souls, because\r\nbodies fall, why do they make nothing of the words, \"Ye that\r\nfear the Lord, wait for His mercy; and go not aside lest\r\nye fall;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_733_733\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_733_733\">[733]</a> and \"To his own Master he stands or falls;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_734_734\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_734_734\">[734]</a>\r\nand \"He that thinketh he standeth, let him take heed lest\r\nhe fall?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_735_735\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_735_735\">[735]</a> For I fancy this fall that we are to take heed\r\nagainst is a fall of the soul, not of the body. If, then, rising\r\nagain belongs to things that fall, and souls fall, it must be\r\nowned that souls also rise again. To the words, \"In them\r\nthe second death hath no power,\" are added the words, \"but\r\nthey shall be priests of God and Christ, and shall reign with\r\nHim a thousand years;\" and this refers not to the bishops<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_369\">[Pg 369]</a></span>\r\nalone, and presbyters, who are now specially called priests in\r\nthe Church; but as we call all believers Christians on account\r\nof the mystical chrism, so we call all priests because they are\r\nmembers of the one Priest. Of them the Apostle Peter says,\r\n\"A holy people, a royal priesthood.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_736_736\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_736_736\">[736]</a> Certainly he implied,\r\nthough in a passing and incidental way, that Christ is God,\r\nsaying priests of God and Christ, that is, of the Father and\r\nthe Son, though it was in His servant-form and as Son of man\r\nthat Christ was made a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.\r\nBut this we have already explained more than\r\nonce.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-590"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"10facb4195d6e99b02e04e76fe8fdaa68ccc06e4e3a66615164888be607c021d","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. ii. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_733_733","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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