27…Therein Christ died, wherein you are to die: and therein Christ rose again, wherein you are to rise again. By His example He taught you what you should not fear, for what you should hope. You feared death, He died: you despaired of rising again, He rose again. But you say to me, He rose again, do I by any means rise again? But He rose again in that which for you He received of you. Therefore your nature in Him has preceded you; and that which was taken of you, has gone up before you: therein therefore thou also hast ascended. Therefore He ascended first, and we in Him: because that flesh is of the human race…Behold one again. Hear of its being fulfilled from the Apostle: If then you have risen with Christ, the things which are above seek ye, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God; the things which are above mind ye, not the things which are upon the earth. He then has gone before: already we also have risen again, but still in hope. Hear the Apostle Paul saying this same thing: Even we ourselves groan in ourselves, looking for the adoption, the redemption of our body. What is it then that Christ has granted to you? Hear that which follows: For by hope we are saved: but hope which is seen is not hope. For that which a man sees, why does he hope for? But if that which we see not we hope for, through patience we wait for it. We have been brought back therefore again from the bottomless places in hope. Why again? Because already Christ had gone before. But because we shall rise again in substance, for now in hope we are living, now after faith we are walking; we have been brought back from the bottomless places of the earth, by believing in Him who before us has risen again from the bottomless place of the earth…You have heard one again, you have heard the other: again; one again because of Christ going before; and the other, yet however in hope, and a thing which remains to be in substance. You have multiplied Your righteousness, already in me believing, already in those that first have risen again in hope… You have multiplied Your righteousness, and being turned You have comforted me: and because of the body to rise again at the end, even from the bottomless places of the earth again You have brought me back.

28. For I will confess to You in the vessels of a Psalm Your truth. The vessels of a Psalm are a Psaltery. But what is a Psaltery? An instrument of wood and strings. What does it signify? There is some difference between it and a harp:…there seems to be signified by the Psaltery the Spirit, by the harp the flesh. And because he had spoken of two bringings back of ours from the bottomless places of the earth, one after the Spirit in hope, the other after the body in substance; hear thou of these two: For I will confess to You in the vessels of a Psalm Your truth. This after the Spirit: concerning the body what? I will psalm to You on a harp, Holy One of Israel.

29. Again hear this because of that same again and again. My lips shall exult when I shall psalm to You. Because lips are wont to be spoken of both belonging to the inner and to the outward man, it is uncertain in what sense lips have been used: there follows therefore, And my soul which You have redeemed. Therefore regarding the inward lips having been saved in hope, brought back from the bottomless places of the earth in faith and love, still however waiting for the redemption of our body, we say what? Already he has said, And my soul which You have redeemed. But lest you should think the soul alone redeemed, wherein now you have heard one again, but still, he says; why still? but still my tongue also: therefore now the tongue of the body: all day long shall meditate of Your righteousness: that is, in eternity without end. But when shall this be? Hereafter at the end of the world, at the resurrection of the body and the changing into the Angelic state. Whence is it proved that this is spoken of the end, but still my tongue also all day long shall meditate of Your righteousness? When they shall have been confounded and shall have blushed, that seek evil things for me. When shall they be confounded, when shall they blush, save at the end of the world? For in two ways they shall be confounded, either when they shall believe in Christ, or when Christ shall have come. For so long as the Church is here, so long as grain groans amid chaff, so long as wheat groans amid tares, so long as vessels of mercy groan amid vessels of wrath made for dishonour, so long as lily groans amid thorns, there will not be wanting enemies to say, When shall he die, and his name perish? Behold there shall come the time when Christians shall be ended and shall be no more: as they began at a set time, so even unto a particular time they shall be. But while they are saying these things and without end are dying, and while the Church is continuing preaching the Arm of the Lord to every generation that is to come; there shall come Himself also at last in His glory, there shall rise again all the dead, each with his cause: there shall be severed good men to the right hand, but evil men to the left, and they shall be confounded that did insult, they shall blush that did mock: and so my tongue after resurrection shall meditate of Your righteousness, all day long of Your praise, when they shall have been confounded and shall have blushed, that seek evil things for me.