John of Damascus, on Isa 26:19

“Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.”

“Sacred Scripture … testifies to the fact that there will be a resurrection of the body.… Isaiah also [testifies that] "the dead shall rise and those in their graves be awakened." And it is obvious that it is not the souls that are put in the tombs but the bodies.”

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