The Enchiridion 84

sant'Agostino d'Ippona (354–430 d.C.) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

84 The Resurrection of the Body Gives Rise to Numerous Questions PL 40, 272

Now, as to the resurrection of the body, —not a resurrection such as some have had, who came back to life for a time and died again, but a resurrection to eternal life, as the body of Christ Himself rose again,—I do not see how I can discuss the matter briefly, and at the same time give a satisfactory answer to all the questions that are ordinarily raised about it. Yet that the bodies of all men—both those who have been born and those who shall be born, both those who have died and those who shall die—shall be raised again, no Christian ought to have the shadow of a doubt.

De carnis resurrectione. Jam vero de resurrectione carnis, non sicut quidam revixerunt, iterumque sunt mortui, sed in aeternam vitam, sicut Christi ipsius caro resurrexit, quemadmodum possim breviter disputare, et omnibus quaestionibus quae de hac re moveri assolent, satisfacere non invenio. Resurrecturam tamen carnem omnium quicumque nati sunt hominum atque nascentur, et mortui sunt atque morientur, nullo modo dubitare debet christianus.

Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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