(S. + Confirmation about the Resurrection also from natural demonstra- tions^ God shows us abundantly about the Resurrection, even by means of a bird that cannot speak, we mean the phcenix, which is solitary, for if it had a mate many would be seen by man, but now one alone is seen once in five hundred years, which enters Egypt and goes to the altar that is called of the Sun. It brings cinnamon ; as it prays towards the East, the fire kindles of itself, and consumes it, so that it becomes ashes ; and again from the ashes is formed a worm, which grows up in its likeness, and becomes a perfect phcenix, and thereafter it departs and goes whence it came.)