90. Who was He that said this? He in
truth Who when dead raised up many bodies of the departed. If we
believe not God, shall we not believe evidence? Do we not believe
what He promised, since He did even that which He did not
promise? And what reason would He have had for dying, had He not
also had a reason for rising again? For, seeing that God could
not die, Wisdom could not die; and inasmuch as that could not rise
again which had not died, flesh is assumed, which can die, that whilst
that, whose nature it is, dies, that which had died should rise
again. For the resurrection could not be effected except by man;
since, “as by man came death, so too by man came the resurrection
of the dead.” 1 Cor. xv. 21.