320 NOVATIAN THE ROMAN PRESBYTER resurrectionisestablished,in thatChristisraisedup in the substanceof the body as an example for the rest; because, when itiswrittenthat" fleshand blood do not inheritthe kingdom of God," 1 it is not the substanceof the flesh thatiscondemned, which was builtup by the divinehands that it should not perish,but only the guiltof the fleshis rightlyrebuked, which by the voluntary daring of man rebelledagainstthe claimsof divinelaw. Because in bap tism and in the dissolutionof death the fleshis raisedup and returnsto salvation,by being recalledto the condition of innocencywhen the mortalityof guiltisput away. CHAPTER XL ARGuMENT. — And indeed that Christwas not only man, but God also; thateven as He was theSon of man, soalto He was theSon of God. But lest,from the fact of assertingthat our Lord Jesus Christ,the Son of God, the Creator,was manifested in the substanceof the true body,we should seem eitherto have givenassentto otherheretics,who in thisplacemaintainthat He isman only and alone,and thereforedesireto prove that He was a man bare and solitary; and lestwe should seem to have affordedthem any ground for objecting,we do not so express [the truth]concerning the substanceof His body, as to say that He is only and alone man, but so as to maintain,by the associationof the divinityof the Word in thatvery materiality,thatHe was alsoGod accordingtothe Scriptures. For there is a great risk of saying thatthe Saviourof the human race,the Lord of all,and the Chief of the world, to whom all things were delivered,and all things were granted by His Father, by whom all things were ordained,all things were created,all things were arranged,the King of all ages and times,the Prince of allthe angels,beforewhom there is none but the Father, 1 1 Cor.xvi.50.