‘Nay,’ you say, ‘I hope from him what itself also makes for a testimony of diversity: the kingdom of God of eternal and heavenly possession. But your Christ promises the Jews their former state from restoration of the land and after life’s course a refreshment among the dead in Abraham’s bosom.’ O best God, if when…
Let us return now to the resurrection, to which we have already given satisfaction elsewhere in a proper volume against all heretics; but we are not missing here either, for those who do not know that little work.
How some then denied the resurrection of the dead must first be examined—surely in the same way as now, since the resurrection of the flesh is always denied. As for the soul, many of the wise claim it divine and promise it safe, and the crowd itself honors the dead by the presumption that their souls remain.