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Chapter
LVIII.
Further, after these Greek stories which the Jew adduced
respecting those who were guilty of juggling practices,3350
and who pretended to have risen from the
dead, he says to those Jews who are converts to Christianity:
“Do you imagine the statements of others not only to be myths,
but to have the appearance of such, while you have discovered a
becoming and credible termination to your drama in the voice from the
cross, when he breathed his last?” We reply to the
Jew: “What you adduce as myths, we regard also as such; but
the statements of the Scriptures which are common to us both, in which
not you only, but we also, take pride, we do not at all regard as
myths. And therefore we accord our belief to those who have
therein related that some rose from the dead, as not being guilty of
imposition; and to Him especially there mentioned as having risen, who
both predicted the event Himself, and was the subject of prediction by
others. And His resurrection is more miraculous than that of the
others in this respect, that they were raised by the prophets Elijah
and Elisha, while He was raised by none of the prophets, but by His
Father in heaven. And therefore His resurrection also produced
greater results than theirs. For what great good has accrued to
the world from the resurrection of the children through the
instrumentality of Elijah and Elisha, such as has resulted from the
preaching of the resurrection of Jesus, accepted as an article of
belief, and as effected through the agency of divine
power?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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