16. For by his own body Jesus Christ saved all flesh,[1]
17. Presenting in his own body a temple[2] of righteousness,
18. Through which we are saved.
19. Know therefore that they who follow them are not children of righteousness, but of wrath, who despise the wisdom of God, and, not believing, assert that heaven and earth, and all that is in them, are not a work of God.[3]
20. [They are therefore children of wrath][4] they have the accursed belief of the serpent;
21. These remove from you,[5] and keep aloof from their teaching.
22. [For you are not children of disobedience, but children of the beloved Church.
23. On this account the time of the resurrection has been preached by all.][6]
24. And they who say[7] that there is no resurrection of the flesh, shall have no resurrection,
25. For they believe not that the Dead had thus risen.
26. For they know not, O Corinthians, the seed of wheat or some other grain[8] that it is cast barely into the ground, and which having been dissolved rises up again after the will of God in the same body and clothed.
27. And he dissolves not only the body which is sown, but blesses it manifold.
28. And if one will not take the parable of the seed grains [but from nobler bodies][9]
29. Let him look at Jonah, the son of Amittai, who, become
- ↑ Armenian reads: flesh, and through faith brought it to everlasting life.
- ↑ Armenian and Ephraem: holy temple.
- ↑ Armenian and Ephæm: the work of God, the Father of the universe.
- ↑ So one authority, but not in the Coptic and Harnack.
- ↑ Harnack's reading "from us" is probably only a misprint of a letter.
- ↑ These two verses are not in the Coptic, are omitted also by Harnack; they are found in the Armenian.
- ↑ Coptic: say to you.
- ↑ The Coptic breaks here off.
- ↑ So the Armenian.
