10. Take further a manifest proof of the
resurrection of the dead, witnessed month by month in the sky and its
luminaries Clem. Rom. Epist.
ad Cor. xxiv: “Day and night shew unto us the
resurrection. The night falleth asleep, and day ariseth; the day
departeth, and night cometh on.”. The body of
the moon vanishes completely, so that no part of it is any more seen,
yet it fills again, and is restored to its former state Tertull. de Resurr.
Carnis, xii.: “Readorned also are the mirrors of the
moon, which her monthly course had worn away.”…“The
whole of this revolving order of things bears witness to the
resurrection of the dead.”; and for the perfect demonstration of the
matter, the moon at certain revolutions of years suffering eclipse and
becoming manifestly changed into blood, yet recovers its luminous
body: God having provided this, that thou also, the man who art
formed of blood, mightest not refuse credence to the resurrection of
the dead, but mightest believe concerning thyself also what thou seest
in respect of the moon. These therefore use thou as arguments
against the Greeks; for with them who receive not what is written fight
thou with unwritten weapons, by reasonings only and demonstrations; for
these men know not who Moses is, nor Esaias, nor the Gospels, nor
Paul.