Anf-03 v.viii.lii Pg 4
Ver. 37.
are you permitted to suppose that in the resurrection a different body is to arise from that which is sown in death. Otherwise you have run away from the example. For if wheat be sown and dissolved in the ground, barley does not spring up. Still it is not7676 7676 An objection of the opponent.
the very same grain in kind; nor is its nature the same, or its quality and form. Then whence comes it, if it is not the very same? For even the decay is a proof of the thing itself, since it is the decay of the actual grain. Well, but does not the apostle himself suggest in what sense it is that “the body which shall be” is not the body which is sown, even when he says, “But bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; but God giveth it a body as it pleaseth Him?”7677 7677
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.x Pg 17
1 Cor. xv. 37, 38.
since also he says, that “to every seed is its own body;”5641 5641
Anf-03 v.viii.lii Pg 6
Vers. 37, 38.
