84. If these things happened when He gave up the
ghost, why should we think them incredible when He shall return to
judgment? especially since this earlier resurrection is a pledge of
that future resurrection, and a pattern of that reality Which is to
come; indeed, it is rather itself truth than a pattern. Who,
then, at the Lord’s resurrection opened the graves, gave a hand
to those who were rising, showed them the road to find the holy
city? If there was no one, it was certainly the Divine Power
which was working in the bodies of the dead. Shall one seek for
the aid of man where one sees the work of God?