On the Resurrection of the Dead 3

Moreover, that his power is sufficient for the resurrection of bodies is shown by their very origin. For if, when they did not exist, he made human bodies and their first principles at their first constitution, he will also raise them, however they have been dissolved, with equal ease; for this too is equally possible for him. And it does the argument no harm if some suppose that the first principles come from matter, or that human bodies come from the elements as first things, or from seeds. For the same power that can give form to what they regard as formless, adorn with many different forms what was shapeless and unordered, gather the parts of the elements into one, divide the seed, which is one and simple, into many, articulate what was unarticulated, and give life to what was not living, can also unite what has been dissolved, raise up what lies fallen, give life again to what is dead, and change the corruptible into incorruption. It would belong to the same being, and to the same power and wisdom, to separate out what has been broken up by multitudes of animals of every kind, which commonly attack such bodies and take their fill of them, and to reunite it with its own parts and particles: whether it has passed into one of those animals or into many, or from these into others, or has been dissolved along with them and carried back to the first principles by the natural process of dissolution into them. This is what seems to have troubled most of all some even of those who are admired for their wisdom, who thought, I do not know why, that the difficulties raised by the many were strong.