62. So, then, even if thou wilt not believe in our
resurrection by faith nor by example, thou wilt believe by
experience. For many products, as the vine, the olive, and
different fruits, the end of the year is the fit time for ripening; and
for us also the consummation of the world, as though the end of the
year has set the fitting time for rising again. And fitly is the
resurrection of the dead at the consummation of the world, lest after
the resurrection we should have to fall back into this evil age.
For this cause Christ suffered that He might deliver us from this evil
world; lest the temptations of this world should overthrow us again,
and it should be an injury to us to come again to life, if we came to
life again for sin.