Now, if you should recall having read in the gospel that Elijah appeared—and Moses—in Jesus’ company, do not suppose that resurrection is an apparition. It is not an apparition; rather, it is something real. Instead, one ought to maintain that the world is an apparition, rather than resurrection, which became possible through our lord, the savior, Jesus the kind.
And what am I telling you? Suddenly the living are dying—surely they are not alive at all in this world of apparition!—the rich have become poor, rulers overthrown: all changes, the world in an apparition.
But let me not deprecate the circumstances of this world at too great a length. Simply: resurrection is not of this sort, for it is real.
It is what stands at rest:
And the revealing of what truly exists.
And it is what one receives in exchange for the circumstances of this world:
And a migration into newness.
For incorruptibility is streaming down upon corruption:
And light is streaming down upon darkness, swallowing it.
And the fulness is filling up its lack
—these are the symbols and the likenesses of resurrection:
This is what brings about goodness.