76. We notice here how the operations of the Spirit of life are again resumed; we know after what manner the dead are raised from the opening tombs. And is it in truth a matter of wonder that the sepulchres of the dead are unclosed at the bidding of the Lord, when the whole earth from its utmost limits is shaken by one thunderclap, the sea overflows its bounds, and again checks the course of its waves? And finally, he who has believed that the dead shall rise again “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (for the trumpet shall sound),” 1 Cor. xv. 52. “shall be caught up amongst the first in the clouds to meet Christ in the air;” 1 Thess. iv. 17. he who has not believed shall be left, and subject himself to the sentence by his own unbelief.