2. Now Greeks and Samaritans together argue
against us thus. The dead man has fallen, and mouldered away, and
is all turned into worms; and the worms have died also; such is the
decay and destruction which has overtaken the body; how then is it to
be raised? The shipwrecked have been devoured by fishes, which
are themselves devoured. Of them who fight with wild beasts the
very bones are ground to powder, and consumed by bears and lions.
Vultures and ravens feed on the flesh of the unburied dead, and then
fly away over all the world; whence then is the body to be
collected? For of the fowls who have devoured it some may chance
to die in India, some in Persia, some in the land of the Goths.
Other men again are consumed by fire, and their very ashes scattered by
rain or wind; whence is the body to be brought together again The objections noticed
in § 2 are discussed by Athenagoras, De Resurr. capp. ii.,
iv.—viii.; Tatian. Or. ad Græcos, cap. vi., Tertull.
De Resurr. Carn. cap. 63.?