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unto the glory of the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven in place of the 87.4 body that has toiled in fastings and vigils and persecutions for the sake of God's name. But how will the soul be judged alone according to the argument of the heresies, when the body that sinned with it is not present? For such a soul will speak against the judgment of God, saying that the sins belonged to the 87.5 body. For it even has the proof according to the argument of those who are moved by contentiousness and not by truth. For it can say: 'I did not sin, but the body. For since I departed from the body, I neither fornicated nor committed adultery, I did not steal, I did not murder, 87.6 I did not worship idols, nor did I do any of the evil and incurable things.' And its defense will be found reasonable. And with it defending itself reasonably, what shall we say? Is the judgment of God then idle? But 'Does God unjustly inflict his wrath on men? May it not be!' 88.1 But we know that 'all things are possible with God,' and he is able to bring a body even without a soul, and the bodies that have vanished he is able to make live again and to be moved by themselves without souls, if he wishes, just as he already accomplished such a 88.2 dispensation through the most holy Ezekiel. For he said to the holy prophet, 'Say, son of man, for bone to be joined to bone and joint to joint'; and it was a marvel to behold the power of God, that with the souls not yet cast in, but while the bones were dry, not only did they have the power to move at the command of God, but also 88.3 the bones were filled with understanding and no ordinary knowledge. For the foot bones did not move forgetfully near the parts of the head, nor did the vertebrae of the neck, wandering around the joints of the ankles, seek their place, but each of the bones both moved and went according to understanding and was joined to its own joint. 88.4 If, then, God wishes, he can raise a body even without a soul. For in this he showed his power, in first making that which was despaired of among men come to life through what 88.5 he commanded to Ezekiel. And he did not say: 'Say, son of man, for the spirit to come first,' but after making easy the difficult thing for the sake of faith—I mean the gathering together of the bodies—then he commanded the souls to enter into the bodies themselves; 'and there stood up,' it says, 'a great 88.6 assembly.' Therefore I have said that God is able to make a body live again even without a soul, as has been shown before, but the body cannot be judged by itself. For it has a just defense against the 88.7 judgment of God. For it also says, speaking: 'From that soul was the sin, I was not the cause. For since I was dissolved and it departed from me, did I commit adultery, did I fornicate, did I steal, did I worship idols, did I do any such sins?' And according to the argument of the contentious, the judgment of God will be void. 88.8 For this reason, just as the body and the soul were one composite man come from God, again the just judge raises the body and puts its soul in it. And so the judgment of God will be just, with both sharing either in the punishment on account of sin, or in the †godliness on account of virtue and the reward that is to be given to the saints. 89.1 And thinking these things to be sufficient for the demonstration of the truth of our hope, we have set forth a few things instead of many. But on account of those who say that another body is raised instead of the one that falls, we again add to our labor, wishing to benefit those who want to understand and not try to destroy their own 89.2 life. For may it be that we, the least and of no account, labor and that both we ourselves and all be benefited and

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εἰς δόξαν κληρονομίας βασιλείας οὐρανῶν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐν νηστείαις καὶ ἀγρυπνίαις καὶ διωγμοῖς ὑπὲρ ὀνόματος θεοῦ κεκμηκότος 87.4 σώματος. πῶς δὲ καὶ ψυχὴ κριθήσεται μόνη κατὰ τὸν λόγον τῶν αἱρέσεων, μὴ παρόντος τοῦ συναμαρτήσαντος σώματος; ἀντείπῃ γὰρ ἡ τοιαύτη ψυχὴ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ κρίσει, φάσκουσα τοῦ σώματος γεγε87.5 νῆσθαι τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. ἔχει γὰρ καὶ τὴν ἀπόδειξιν κατὰ τὸν τῶν φιλονεικίᾳ φερομένων λόγον καὶ μὴ ἀληθείᾳ. δύναται γὰρ λέγειν· οὐκ ἐγὼ ἥμαρτον, ἀλλὰ τὸ σῶμα. ἐξότου γὰρ ἐξῆλθον ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, οὔτε ἐπόρνευσα οὔτε ἐμοίχευσα, οὐκ ἔκλεψα οὐκ ἐφόνευσα οὐκ 87.6 εἰδωλολάτρησα οὔ τι τῶν κακῶν καὶ ἀνηκέστων εἰργασάμην. καὶ εὔλογος εὑρεθήσεται ἡ αὐτῆς ἀπολογία. εὐλόγως δὲ αὐτῆς ἀπολογουμένης τί ἐροῦμεν; ἀργὴ ἆρα ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ κρίσις; ἀλλ' «ἀδίκως ἐπιφέρει τὴν ὀργὴν ὁ θεὸς κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων; μὴ γένοιτο». 88.1 Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι «πάντα τῷ θεῷ δυνατά» καὶ δύναται καὶ σῶμα φέρειν ἄνευ ψυχῆς καὶ τὰ ἀφανῆ γεγονότα σώματα δύναται ποιῆσαι πάλιν ἀναβιοῦν κινεῖσθαί τε αὐτὰ ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν ἄνευ ψυχῶν, ἐὰν θέλῃ, ὡς καὶ ἤδη διὰ τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου Ἰεζεκιὴλ τὴν τοιαύτην 88.2 οἰκονομίαν ἐποίησεν. ἔλεγε γὰρ τῷ ἁγίῳ προφήτῃ «εἰπέ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, συναχθῆναι ὀστοῦν πρὸς ὀστοῦν καὶ ἁρμονίαν πρὸς ἁρμονίαν»· καὶ ἦν θαυμάσαι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ δύναμιν, ὅτι μηδέπω τῶν ψυχῶν ἐμβληθεισῶν, ἀλλὰ ξηρῶν ὄντων τῶν ὀστέων οὐ μόνον τοῦ κινεῖσθαι ἔσχον δύναμιν ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ προστάξεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ 88.3 συνέσεως τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ γνώσεως οὐ τῆς τυχούσης. οὐ γὰρ τὰ πρὸς τοὺς πόδας ὀστέα ἐγγὺς τῶν μερῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς κατὰ λήθην ἐβάδιζεν οὐδὲ οἱ τοῦ τραχήλου σπόνδυλοι περὶ τὰς τῶν ἀστραγάλων ἁρμονίας πλανώμενοι τὸν τόπον ἐξήτουν, ἀλλ' ἕκαστον τῶν ὀστέων καὶ ἐκινήθη καὶ ἐβάδιζε κατὰ σύνεσιν καὶ τῇ αὐτοῦ ἁρμονίᾳ 88.4 προσετίθετο. εἰ γοῦν θέλει ὁ θεός, δύναται καὶ σῶμα ἄνευ ψυχῆς ἐγεῖραι. ἐν τούτῳ γὰρ τὸ δυνατὸν αὐτοῦ ἔδειξεν, ἐν τῷ τὸ παρὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἀπηλπισμένον ἐκεῖνο πρῶτον ποιῆσαι ἀναβιοῦν διὰ τοῦ 88.5 τῷ Ἰεζεκιὴλ προστεταχέναι. καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν· εἰπέ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, πρῶτον ἐλθεῖν τὸ πνεῦμα, ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὸ ἐξευμαρίσαι τὸ δυσχερὲς διὰ τὴν πίστιν, φημὶ δὲ τὸ τὰ σώματα συναχθῆναι, τότε προσέταξε τὰς ψυχὰς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς αὐτὰ τὰ σώματα· «καὶ ἀνέστη δέ» φησί «πολλὴ 88.6 συναγωγή». δύνασθαι τοίνυν τὸν θεὸν ποιῆσαι ἔφην καὶ σῶμα δίχα ψυχῆς ἀναβιοῦν, καθὰ προδέδεικται, ἀλλ' οὐ δύναται κριθῆναι καθ' ἑαυτὸ τὸ σῶμα. ἔχει γὰρ δικαίαν ἀπολογίαν πρὸς τὴν τοῦ 88.7 θεοῦ κρίσιν. φάσκει γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸ λέγον· ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐκείνης ἦν ἡ ἁμαρτία, οὐκ ἤμην αἴτιον ἐγώ. ἐξότου γὰρ ἐλύθην καὶ ἐκείνη ἀπ' ἐμοῦ ἀπέστη, μὴ ἐμοίχευσα μὴ ἐπόρνευσα μὴ κέκλοφα μὴ εἰδωλολάτρησα μή τι τῶν τοιούτων ἀμπλακημάτων εἰργασάμην; καὶ ἔσται κατὰ τὸν τῶν φιλονείκων λόγον ἄπρακτος ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ κρίσις. 88.8 διὰ τοῦτο ὡς ἦν τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ σύνθετος εἷς ἄνθρωπος ἐκ θεοῦ γεγενημένος, αὖθις ὁ δίκαιος κριτὴς τὸ σῶμα ἐγείρει καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ δίδωσι. καὶ οὕτως δικαία γενήσεται ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ κρίσις, ἀμφοτέρων κοινωνούντων ἢ τῆς δι' ἁμαρτίας τιμωρίας ἢ τῆς δι' ἀρετὴν † θεοσεβείας καὶ τῆς μελλούσης ἀποδίδοσθαι τοῖς ἁγίοις μισθαποδοσίας. 89.1 Ταῦτα δὲ εἰς παράστασιν τῆς ἀληθείας τῆς ἡμῶν ἐλπίδος ἱκανῶς ἔχειν νομίζοντες ὀλίγα ἀντὶ πολλῶν παρεθέμεθα. διὰ δὲ τοὺς λέγοντας ἕτερον σῶμα ἀντὶ τοῦ πίπτοντος ἐγείρεσθαι, πάλιν τῷ καμάτῳ προστιθέμεθα, ὠφελῆσαι τοὺς βουλομένους συνιέναι καὶ τὴν 89.2 αὐτῶν ζωὴν ἀπολέσαι μὴ πειρωμένους βουλόμενοι. γένοιτο γὰρ κάμνειν ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἐλαχίστους καὶ μηδαμινοὺς καὶ ἑαυτοὺς καὶ πάντας ὠφελεῖσθαι καὶ