← §3 Read continuously On the Resurrection · §4 · Origen of Alexandria
Those of the resurrection will be as angels—without flesh
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…to declare the Lord, as when the Sadducees tempt him: "those who attain the resurrection will then be as angels ." He adds: "Angels stand outside flesh in the height of blessedness, and for that reason they also have glory; so we who are to be made equal to angels must likewise be without flesh as they are."
Greek ἀποφήνασθαι τὸν Κύριον, ὡς «οἱ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τευξόμενοι ἔσονται τότε ὡς ἄγγελοι,» ἔνθα πειράζουσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Σαδδουκαῖοι, ἐπέφερεν· «Οἱ δὲ ἄγγελοι ἐκτὸς
ὄντες σαρκὸς ἐν μακαριότητος ἀκρότητι, διὰ τοῦτο καὶ δόξης εἰσί· καὶ ἡμᾶς δὲ ἄρα
ἐξισάζεσθαι μέλλοντας ἀγγέλοις ἀνάγκη δὴ σαρκῶν ὡσαύτως ἐκείνοις γυμνοὺς
ἔσεσθαι δεῖν.»
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About this text Fragments from Origen on the rising of the dead: Lazarus and the rich man, the soul's bodily form after death, and the risen being like the angels.
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 254) is the author of these fragments on the resurrection. Methodius is the writer who reports the words. This is not Chrysostom's treatise on the resurrection of the dead.
He takes up the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Simpler readers treat both men as still in the body. More careful readers say the scene is not yet the resurrection, because after the rising no one is left living in this age. The rich man speaks of his five brothers.
The fragments then speak of the form the soul has at death, of Samuel seen in a body, and of the saying that those who reach the resurrection will be as the angels, and so without flesh. The citations use the old names of the biblical books.
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