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"For as," you say, "by man came death, so by man came also the
resurrection of the dead." Do you actually try to prove your wrong and
impious notion by the witness of the Apostle? And do you bring the "chosen
vessel" into disgrace by mixing him up with your wicked ideas? I mean,
that, as you cannot understand the author of your Salvation, therefore the
Apostle must be made out to have denied God. And yet, if you wanted to make
use of Apostolic witnesses, why did you rest contented with one, and pass
over all the others in silence? and why did you not at once add this:
"Paul, an Apostle not of men neither by man, but by Jesus Christ:" or
this: "We speak wisdom among the perfect:" and presently: "Whom none," says
he, "of the princes of this world knew; for had they known, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory." Or this: "For in Him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily." And: "One Lord Jesus Christ through whom
are all things." Or do you partly agree, and partly disagree with the
Apostle, and only receive him so far as in consequence of the
Incarnation he names Christ man, and repudiate him where he speaks of
Him as God? For Paul does not deny that Jesus is man, but still he
confesses that man is God: and declares that to mankind the resurrection
came by man in such a way that he shows that in that man God arose. For see
whether he declares that He who rose was God, as he bears his witness that
He who was crucified was the Lord of glory.
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