Augustine of Hippo, on 1Cor 15:40

“And there are bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.”

“If any man does not believe that common flesh can be changed into a nature of this sort, he is to be convinced toward faith by gradual steps. If you ask them whether earth can be changed into water, that will not seem to him incredible because there is no great distance between these two elements. Again if you ask whether water can be changed into air, he will agree that that is not absurd because these two elements are close neighbors.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.