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apostle. And the one shows all clarity according to the things perfectly worked in him, which is the prototype of our resurrection. For the Savior, both teaching and doing this, surely worked all things for our presentation. For he immediately spoke of the grain and raised the grain, so that he might confirm for us the faith of the hope of our resurrection in truth. Taking up from this, the apostle, borne by the Holy Spirit, describing to us the glory of the saints that will be after the resurrection and the hope of the enjoyment of good things, shows again through the grain of wheat, proclaiming against the unbelievers: "But you will say to me, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?'" And he says to the one saying such things, "Fool." For he who doubts at all about the resurrection is a fool and 2.513 senseless. Then he says, "Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of some other seeds, and it is not made alive unless it dies. But God gives it a body as he wished, and to each of the seeds its own body." And you see that the body is not changed. For no one having sown barley looks for wheat, nor did someone sow black cumin and find barley. But what is sown is itself what is raised. And if something of it is even left behind below in the earth and the shoot rises from it. Here indeed in this perishable wheat that does not come to judgment, what is left behind is useless, but what is raised from it is more beautiful. But he wished to show the splendor because of the unbelief of those not eagerly awaiting the hope of God. For in truth the grain of wheat is very small. But where in such a very small grain are the roots and foundations and stalks and the joints and so many pipes and heads and sheaths and awns and multiplying grains? 69. But so that we might also speak more clearly, recounting things similar to these: Whence to Moses, son of Jochebed, son of Amram, the power to strike a rock with a rod and bring forth water from an impossible source, to change the dry into the wet? To strike the sea and divide it into twelve ways for passage in the sea at the command of God? To change a river into blood? To gather such an acute plague of frogs? To send the gnat upon the Egyptians? To mix hail with fire? To mix in a black and moonless, gloomy night for the Egyptians? To kill the firstborn of the Egyptians in death? To guide with a pillar of fire a people shepherded by him? To bring down the bread of angels by prayer and supplication? To send up quails and satisfy so many myriads of men through the command of God? To 2.514 hear the voice of God? To be counted worthy amidst so many myriads to hear the voice of God and to converse with God? For forty days and for forty nights not to seek the necessities according to the nature of our creation? For his flesh to be changed into the brightness of the sun and a shining ray, dazzling the people so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze upon his face? For his hand, being of flesh, to be changed into snow? To command the earth to open its mouth for the reception of those with Korah and Dathan and Abiram and Onan? At the end to hear, "Go up to the mountain, and die there"? For no man to know his burial? The divine letter signifying that the body of Moses was not buried by men, but, as the mind supposes, by holy angels; and all these things while he was still in this world, still in this soulish body which had at the same time become perfectly spiritual. And having received from this the pledge * as a model of the perfect sprouting then, when what was said is fulfilled, "It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power." For how not