Psalm 19:1-6,15,18 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you, I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you. For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment. You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught. For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever. Daily Quote from the Early Church Fathers The Savior also demonstrated the great ignorance of the Sadducees by bringing forward their own leader Moses, who was clearly acquainted with the resurrection of the dead. He set God before us saying in the bush, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob (Exodus 3:6). Of whom is he God, if, according to their argument, these have ceased to live? He is the God of the living. They certainly will rise when his almighty right hand brings them and all that are on the earth there. For people not to believe that this will happen is worthy perhaps of the ignorance of the Sadducees, but it is altogether unworthy of those who love Christ. We believe in him who says, I am the resurrection and the life (John 11:25). He will raise the dead suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, and at the last trumpet. It shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1 Corinthians 15:52). For Christ our common Savior will transfer us into incorruption, glory and to an incorruptible life. (Cyril of Alexandria, 376-444 A.D., excerpt from Commentary on Luke, Homily 136)
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