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Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ σωμάτων ἀνάστασιν ἔσεσθαι πεπιστεύκαμεν μετὰ τὴν τῶν ὅλων συντέλειαν, οὐχ ὡς οἱ Στωϊκοὶ δογματίζουσι κατά τινας κύκλων περιόδους, γινομένων ἀεὶ καὶ ἀπογινομένων τῶν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπί τι χρήσιμον, ἅπαξ δέ, τῶν καθ ἡμᾶς αἰώνων πεπερασμένων, καὶ εἰς τὸ παντελὲς διὰ μόγων τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν σύστασιν ἔσεσθαι χάριν κρίσεως. Δικάζουσι δὲ ἡμῖν οὐ Μίνως οὐδὲ Ῥαδάμανθυς, ὧν πρὸ τῆς τελευτῆς οὐδεμία τῶν ψυχῶν ὡς μυθολογοῦσιν ἐκρίνετο· δοκιμαστὴς δὲ αὐτὸς ὁ ποιητὴς θεὸς γίνεται. Κἂν γὰρ πάνυ φληνάφους καὶ σπερμολόγους ἡμᾶς νομίσητε, μέλον οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν, ἐπεὶ τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ πεπιστεύκαμεν. Ὥσπερ γὰρ οὐκ ὢν πρὶν ἢ γενέσθαι τίς ἤμην οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον, μόνον δὲ ἐν ὑποστάσει τῆς σαρκικῆς ὕλης ὑπῆρχον, γεγονὼς δὲ ὁ μὴ πάλαι διὰ τῆς γενέσεως τὸ εἶναι πεπίστευκα· τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὁ γενόμενος καὶ διὰ θανάτου μηκέτι ὤν, αὖθίς τε μηκέθ ὁρώμενος, ἔσομαι πάλιν, ὥσπερ μὴ πάλαι γεγονὼς εἶτα γεννηθείς. Κἂν πῦρ ἐξαφανίσῃ μου τὸ σαρκίον, ἐξατμισθεῖσαν τὴν ὕλην ὁ κόσμος κεχώρηκεν· κἂν ἐν ποταμοῖς, κἂν ἐν θαλάτταις ἐκδαπανηθῶ, κἂν ὑπὸ θηρίων διασπασθῶ, ταμείοις ἐναπόκειμαι πλουσίου δεσπότου. Καὶ ὁ μὲν πτωχὸς καὶ ἄθεος οὐκ οἶδε τὰ ἀποκείμενα· θεὸς δὲ ὁ βασιλεύων, ὅτε βούλεται, τὴν ὁρατὴν αὐτῷ μόνῳ ὑπόστασιν ἀποκαταστήσει πρὸς τὸ ἀρχαῖον
為這緣故，我們相信在萬物的終結之後，身體也必復活——並非如斯多亞派所教導的那樣，照著某些週期循環，同樣的事物不斷生成又消滅而毫無益處，乃是只此一次，待我們這世代的時期滿了之時；並且人要為著受審判而完全地重新成形。審判我們的，不是米諾斯，也不是拉達曼提斯——照他們的神話，在這二人死前沒有一個靈魂受過審判——乃是那位創造者神自己作鑒察者。即便你們把我們看作胡言亂語、信口開河之輩，於我們也毫無妨礙，因為我們已信了這道。因為正如我未出生、尚不存在之先，並不知道我是誰，只存於肉身物質的本質之中，及至生出，我這從前不存在的，便藉出生確信了自己的存在；照樣，我這已生出、又藉死亡不再存在、不再被看見的，也必再次存在，正如我從前本不存在，後來卻被生出一般。縱然火把我的肉身化為烏有，世界仍存著那化作蒸氣的物質；縱然我消亡於江河海洋，縱然我被野獸撕碎，我仍被收藏在那富足之主的庫房裡。貧窮無神的人不知道那收藏之物；但那掌權的神在祂所願的時候，必把那唯獨祂可見的本質復原如初。
And for this reason we have believed that there will also be a resurrection of bodies after the consummation of all things—not as the Stoics teach, according to certain cycles of periods, the same things ever coming into being and passing away to no useful end, but once for all, when the ages of our world are completed; and that the constitution of men will come into being utterly, for the sake of judgment. And it is not Minos or Rhadamanthus who judge us, before whose death no soul, as they fable, was judged; but the maker himself, God, becomes the examiner. And even if you suppose us to be triflers and babblers, it is no concern to us, since we have believed this doctrine. For just as, before I was born, not yet existing, I did not know who I was, but only subsisted in the substance of fleshly matter, and having come into being, I who once was not believed through birth in my own existence—in the same way, having come into being and through death no longer existing, and being seen no more, I shall be again, just as, not having been before, I was then born. And even if fire annihilates my flesh, the world holds the matter vaporized; and even if I be consumed in rivers or in seas, even if I be torn apart by wild beasts, I am laid up in the storehouses of a rich Lord. The poor and godless man does not know the things laid up; but God who reigns, when he wills, will restore to its ancient state the substance visible to him alone.