IV. Democritus and like stammerings from corrupt tradition, not from natural principles
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IV.For the rest, whatever Democritus — whom Pliny mocks (Natural History book 7, chapter 55) — or others of the same flour stammered concerning resurrection, they could have received that whole only by hearsay, either from tradition, which yet for the most part they either received corrupt from their teachers or themselves corrupted:but from reason or from principles which all would admit as known apart from revelation they could not draw it.For there is none of those from which it is permitted to prove that the resurrection of bodies will sometime be future.
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IV. Caeterum, quicquid Democritus, quem Plinius ridet lib. 7. cap. 55. vel ejusdem farinae alii de resurrectione balbutiverunt, id totum nonnisi fando accepisse potuerunt, sive e traditione, quam tamen ut plurimum vel corruptam a doctoribus suis acceperunt, vel corruperunt ipsi: e ratione vero seu principiis, quae citra revelationem nota omnes admitterent, haurire non potuerunt. Nullum enim eorum est, e quo liceat evincere, resurrectionem corporum aliquando futuram esse.