19. We shall be raised therefore, all with
our bodies eternal, but not all with bodies alike: for if a man
is righteous, he will receive a heavenly body, that he may be able
worthily to hold converse with Angels; but if a man is a sinner, he
shall receive an eternal body, fitted to endure the penalties of sins,
that he may burn eternally in fire, nor ever be consumed Cf. Cat. iv. 31.. And righteously will God assign this
portion to either company; for we do nothing without the body. We
blaspheme with the mouth, and with the mouth we pray. With the
body we commit fornication, and with the body we keep chastity.
With the hand we rob, and by the hand we bestow alms; and the rest in
like manner. Since then the body has been our minister in all
things, it shall also share with us in the future the fruits of the
past τῶν
γενομένων.
With the reading γινομένων
(Codd. Monn. Vind.), the meaning will be—“share with us in
the future what shall happen to us then.” On the argument
of this section compare the passages quoted on § 4, note 7..