The Treatise on the Resurrection.....

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" What, then, is the resurrection? It is always the disclosure of those who have

risen. For if you remember reading in the Gospel that Elijah appeared and Moses

with him, do not think the resurrection is an illusion. It is no illusion, but

it is truth! Indeed, it is more fitting to say the world is an illusion, rather

than the resurrection which has come into being through our Lord the Savior,

Jesus Christ.

 

But what am I telling you now? Those who are living shall die. How do they live

in an illusion? The rich have become poor, and the kings have been overthrown.

Everything is prone to change. The world is an illusion! - lest, indeed, I rail

at things to excess!

 

But the resurrection does not have this aforesaid character, for it is the truth

which stands firm. It is the revelation of what is, and the transformation of

things, and a transition into newness. For imperishability descends upon the

perishable; the light flows down upon the darkness, swallowing it up; and the

Pleroma fills up the deficiency. These are the symbols and the images of the

resurrection. He it is who makes the good. "

 

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