{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/102/1020612.htm","path":"chr/ecf/102/1020612.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/102/1020612.htm","text":"Chapter 10.\u2014What is to Be Replied to Those Who Think that Resurrection Pertains Only to Bodies and Not to Souls.\nThere are some who suppose that resurrection can be predicated only of the body, and therefore they contend that this first resurrection (of the Apocalypse) is a bodily resurrection. For, say they, \u201cto rise again\u201d can only be said of things that fall. Now, bodies fall in death. 1370 There cannot, therefore, be a resurrection of souls, but of bodies. But what do they say to the apostle who speaks of a resurrection of souls? For certainly it was in the inner and not the outer man that those had risen again to whom he says, \u201cIf ye have risen with Christ, mind the things that are above.\u201d 1371 The same sense he elsewhere conveyed in other words, saying, \u201cThat as Christ has risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.\u201d 1372 So, too, \u201cAwake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 1373 \u201d As to what they say about nothing being able to rise again but what falls, whence they conclude that resurrection pertains to bodies only, and not to souls, because bodies fall, why do they make nothing p. 432 of the words, \u201cYe that fear the Lord, wait for His mercy; and go not aside lest ye fall;\u201d 1374 and \u201cTo his own Master he stands or falls;\u201d 1375 and \u201cHe that thinketh he standeth, let him take heed lest he fall?\u201d 1376 For I fancy this fall that we are to take heed against is a fall of the soul, not of the body. If, then, rising again belongs to things that fall, and souls fall, it must be owned that souls also rise again. To the words, \u201cIn them the second death hath no power,\u201d are added the words, \u201cbut they shall be priests of God and Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years;\u201d and this refers not to the bishops alone, and presbyters, who are now specially called priests in the Church; but as we call all believers Christians on account of the mystical chrism, so we call all priests because they are members of the one Priest. Of them the Apostle Peter says, \u201cA holy people, a royal priesthood.\u201d 1377 Certainly he implied, though in a passing and incidental way, that Christ is God, saying priests of God and Christ, that is, of the Father and the Son, though it was in His servant-form and as Son of man that Christ was made a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. But this we have already explained more than once.\nAnd, as Augustin remarks, are therefore called cadavera, from cadere, \u201cto fall.\u201d\n431:1371 431:1372 431:1373 432:1374 432:1375 432:1376 432:1377","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II: City of God: Cha...","type":"page"}