ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 15 v40

DIFFERENCES AMONG EARTHLY BODIES. ORIGEN: Even among earthly bodies there are no small differences. Take the human race, for example. Some are Greeks and some are barbarians, and among the barbarians, some are wilder than others. Some have higher laws. Some lower ones, and some follow savage customs which are not laws at all. ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.9.3.

CONVINCE BY GRADUAL STEPS. AUGUSTINE: If any man does not believe that common flesh can be changed into a nature of this sort, he is to be convinced toward faith by gradual steps. If you ask them whether earth can be changed into water, that will not seem to him incredible because there is no great distance between these two elements. Again if you ask whether water can be changed into air, he will agree that that is not absurd because these two elements are close neighbors. FAITH AND THE CREED 10.24.

WHETHER THE WORLD ITSELF IS ETERNAL. AUGUSTINE: Porphyry says: “You praise the body to me without good reasons. No matter what kind of body it is, you must escape from it if you wish to be happy.” Philosophers say this, but they are wrong. They are raving. … I read your books where you say that the world is animated, that the heavens, the earth, the seas, all the huge bodies which exist, all the immense elements of all times, this whole universal body which consists of all these elements—all this, you say, is a vast living thing and has its own soul. But you claim that it does not have the senses of the body because outside of it there is nothing which can be perceived. Nevertheless you say it has intelligence, and that it leads to God, and that the soul of the world is called Jupiter. … You claim that the same world is eternal, that it will always exist, that it will not have an end. If then the world is eternal and remains without any end, if this world is a living thing and if its soul is always held in the world, then as a matter of fact, must we then flee every kind of body? EASTER SERMON 241.7.

GOD CAN MAKE NEW BODIES. PELAGIUS: If God could make the sun, moon and stars, what problem will he have in making new bodies for us? COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15.

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