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of wheat, perhaps, or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has willed, and to each of the seeds its own body.” See, therefore, how the seeds are buried in the furrows as in tombs. Who is it that puts roots in these, and a stalk and leaves, and ears of grain and the finest awns? Is it not the creator of all things? Is it not the command of the one who fashioned all things? So, therefore, believe that the resurrection of the dead will also come to be by the divine will and nod; for he has power that accompanies his will. We shall rise, therefore, with our souls united again to our bodies, which have been made incorruptible and have put off corruption, and we shall stand before the dread judgment seat of Christ, and the devil and his demons and his man, that is, the antichrist, and the impious and the sinners will be handed over to the eternal fire, not a material fire like ours, but such as God would know. But those who have done good things will shine forth like the sun with the angels into eternal life with our Lord Jesus Christ, seeing him and being seen and enjoying the unceasing gladness that comes from him.

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εἰ τύχοι, σίτου ἤ τινος τῶν λοιπῶν. Ὁ δὲ θεὸς αὐτῷ δίδωσι σῶμα, καθὼς ἠθέλησε, καὶ ἑκάστῳ τῶν σπερμάτων τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα». Θέασαι τοίνυν ὡς ἐν τάφοις ταῖς αὔλαξι τὰ σπέρματα καταχωννύμενα. Τίς ὁ τούτοις ῥίζας ἐντιθείς, καλάμην καὶ φύλλα, καὶ ἀστάχυας καὶ τοὺς λεπτοτάτους ἀνθέρικας; Οὐχ ὁ τῶν ὅλων δημιουργός; Οὐ τοῦ τὰ πάντα τεκτηναμένου τὸ πρόσταγμα; Οὕτω τοίνυν πίστευε καὶ τῶν νεκρῶν τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἔσεσθαι θείᾳ βουλήσει καὶ νεύματι· σύνδρομον γὰρ ἔχει τῇ βουλήσει τὴν δύναμιν. Ἀναστησόμεθα τοιγαροῦν τῶν ψυχῶν πάλιν ἑνουμένων τοῖς σώμασιν ἀφθαρτιζομένοις καὶ ἀποδυομένοις τὴν φθορὰν καὶ παραστησόμεθα τῷ φοβερῷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ βήματι, καὶ παραδοθήσεται ὁ διάβολος καὶ οἱ δαίμονες αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος αὐτοῦ ἤγουν ὁ ἀντίχριστος καὶ οἱ ἀσεβεῖς καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον, οὐχ ὑλικὸν οἷον τὸ παρ' ἡμῖν, ἀλλ' οἷον εἰδείη θεός. Οἱ δὲ τὰ ἀγαθὰ πράξαντες ἐκλάμψουσιν ὡς ὁ ἥλιος σὺν ἀγγέλοις εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον σὺν τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ, ὁρῶντες αὐτὸν καὶ ὁρώμενοι καὶ ἄληκτον τὴν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ εὐφροσύνην καρπούμενοι.