Answer to Sadducees with Matt. 22:29; demonstration from both Testaments
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Those who are nearer to the Sadducees, and the Christian Sadducees — as Tertullian calls the deniers of the resurrection, both On the Flesh of Christ ch. 1 and On the Resurrection ch. 36 — we answer not undeservedly with Christ, Matt. 22:29: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, by which God has foretold and promised the resurrection; nor the power of God,by which things are done that otherwise could be done by no power of nature, and on which the resurrection of the flesh depends.
II.And this is to be demonstrated both from the Old and from the New Testament.
Latin
Qui propius Sadducaeorum & Sadducaei Christianorum sunt, ut Tertullianus vocat negatores resurrectionis tum de carne Christi cap. 1. tum de resurrectione cap. 36. iis non immerito respondemus cum Christo, Matth. 22.v.29. Erratis, nescientes scripturas, quibus nempe Deus resurrectionem praedixit & promisit: neque potentiam Dei, per quam fiunt, quae alioquin nulla naturae potentia fieri possent, & a qua pendet resurrectio carnis. II. Est autem id demonstrandum tum e V. tum e N. Testamento.