In
his polemic with pagans and heretics (especially with Origen),
Epiphanios reveals the Church teaching about bodily resurrection: “Our
holy Mother Church believes, as she herself truly preached and truly
prescribed, that we shall all die and be resurrected with this very body
and with this very soul (σὺν σώματι τούτῳ, σὺν ψυχῇ ταύτῃ), with all
our members, so that each one may receive according to what he has done"
(Ancor. 119.11).
Against the pagans, Epiphanios proves the possibility of resurrection with examples from nature: day follows night, awakening follows sleep; seeds planted into the ground, as if dead, germinate and are reborn into a new plant, etc. (Ancor. 833-5). Pagan writers also knew and cited stories about the resurrection of people or their return from the underworld - for example, Alcestis, Pelops, Amphiaraus, Glaucus, Castor, etc. (Ibid. 85.2-4).
Against the pagans, Epiphanios proves the possibility of resurrection with examples from nature: day follows night, awakening follows sleep; seeds planted into the ground, as if dead, germinate and are reborn into a new plant, etc. (Ancor. 833-5). Pagan writers also knew and cited stories about the resurrection of people or their return from the underworld - for example, Alcestis, Pelops, Amphiaraus, Glaucus, Castor, etc. (Ibid. 85.2-4).
