21. Since then we have the prophecies, let
faith abide with us. Let them fall who fall through unbelief,
since they so will; but thou hast taken thy stand on the rock of the
faith in the Resurrection. Let no heretic ever persuade thee to
speak evil of the Resurrection. For to this day the Manichees
say, that, the resurrection of the Saviour was phantom-wise, and not
real, not heeding Paul who says, Who was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh; and again, By the resurrection of Jesus
Christ our Lord from the dead Rom. i. 3, 4. Cyril in his incomplete
quotation of v. 4 makes ᾽Ιησοῦ
Χριστοῦ τοῦ Κ.
ἡμ. depend on ἀναστάσεως. The right order and construction is given in R.V. who was
declared to be the Son of God.…by the resurrection of the
dead; even Jesus Christ our Lord.. And
again he aims at them, and speaks thus, Say not in
thine heart, who shall ascend
into heaven; or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to bring up
Christ from the dead Rom. x. 6, 7.; and in like
manner warning as he has elsewhere written again, Remember Jesus
Christ raised from the dead 2 Tim. ii. 8.; and again,
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
faith also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God;
because we testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He raised
not up 1 Cor. xv. 14, 15.. But in what
follows he says, But now is Christ risen from the dead, the first
fruits of them that are asleep Ib. v.
20.;—And
He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; (for if thou believe not
the one witness, thou hast twelve witnesses;) then He was seen of
above five hundred brethren at once Ib. 5,
6.;
(if they disbelieve the twelve, let them admit the five hundred;)
after that He was seen of James Ib.
7. This appearance of
Christ to James is not mentioned in the Gospels. Jerome
(Catalog. Script. Eccles. p. 170 D) mentions a tradition that
James had taken an oath that he would eat no bread from the hour in
which he had drunk the Cup of the Lord, until he should see Him rising
from the dead. Wherefore the Saviour immediately after He had
risen appeared to James and commanded him to eat.,
His own brother, and first Bishop of this diocese. Seeing then
that such a Bishop originally For τοιούτου
τοίνυν
ἐπισκόπου
πρωτοτύπως
ἰδόντος Codd. Roe, Casaub.
have τοῦ
τοίνυν
πρωτοτύπου
ἐπισκόπου
ἰδόντος, which gives the
better sense—“since therefore the primary Bishop saw,
&c.” On the meaning of παροικία, and the
extent of a primitive Diocese, see Bingham. IX. c. 2. saw Christ Jesus
when risen, do not thou, his disciple, disbelieve him. But thou
sayest that His brother James was a partial witness; afterwards He
was seen also of me 1 Cor. xv. 8. Paul, His enemy;
and what testimony is doubted, when an enemy proclaims it?
“I, who was before a persecutor 1 Tim. i. 13.,
now preach the glad tidings of the Resurrection.”