Covenants; a dead body, not a spiritual one

[lacuna — several words around 'bishop' and 'covenants' are daggered and unreadable]. If this is not done, [lacuna] these covenants would give occasions for inquiries [lacuna]. A bishop or a presbyter is not a bishop, is not a presbyter; if a deacon, he is not a deacon nor a layman; if he is a layman, he is not a layman, nor is he gathered in the assembly. If it seems good, let these covenants be made.

Some add that, as to the matters of the divinity, offering the divinity in this way, in substance, to Jesus Christ, I have confessed the resurrection of a dead body before the church. And since our Savior and Lord took a body, let us examine what the body was.

The church alone, against all the heresies that deny the resurrection, confesses the resurrection of a dead body, as following from the firstfruits having been raised from the dead, that the dead are raised. Christ the firstfruits: for this reason his body became a dead body. For if his body had not become dead — able to be wrapped in linen, to receive myrrh and whatever else belongs to the dead, and to be laid in a tomb — a spiritual body cannot suffer these things. For it is in no way possible for what is spiritual to be made dead, or for what is spiritual to become without sensation. If a spiritual thing can be made dead, there is a fear that after the resurrection of the dead, when our body is raised according to the apostle who says, It is sown a soulish body, it is raised a spiritual body, we may all die.