if the Creator of the universe will bring about a resurrection
EpIsTLE To THE CorINTHIANS
of which He has made the Lord Jesus Christ by raising Him from the dead."
2 Let us consider, beloved, the kind of resurrection that occurs at regular intervals. 3 Day and night give us examples of resurrection. The night sleeps, the day rises; the day departs, the night comes on. 4 Let us take the crops. [he sowing—how and in what manner does it take place? 5 The sower goes out and puts each of the seeds into the soil: when they fall on the soil, they are dry and bare, and decay. But once they have decayed, the Master's wondrous Providence makes them rise, and each one increases and brings forth multiple fruit."
25. Let us consider the strange and striking phenomenon which takes place in the East, that is, in the regions of Arabia.
2 There is a bird which is called the phoenix." It is the only individual of its kind, and it lives five hundred years; and when it approaches dissolution and its death is imminent, it makes itself a nest out of frankincense and myrrh and the other spices; this it enters when the time is fulfilled, and dies. 3 But out of the decaying flesh a sort of worm is born, which feeds on the juices of the dead animal until it grows wings; then, upon growing strong, it takes u that nest in which the bones of the former bird are, and these it carries all the way from Arabia to the Egyptian city called
Heliopolis; 4 and there, in daytime, in the sight of all, it lights upon the altar of the Sun and deposits them there, and then departs to its former home.
5 The priests then examine the public records, and find that it has come after the lapse of five hundred years.
26. Do we, then, consider it a great and remarkable thing if the Creator of the universe will bring about a resurrection of those who have piously served Him in the assurance en-