Chapter XXIII.
Therefore, all the righteous will be transformed in the resurrection, as confirmed by John the Evangelist who said: Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared. We know that when he appears, we shall be like him (1 John 3:2). And the righteous person says: As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness (Psalm 17:15). Therefore, our bodies will rise again to either eternal glory or eternal punishment (Daniel 12:2). The witnesses of whom are Elijah and Enoch, who will remain until the second coming of the Lord Christ throughout the entire series of years. This is confirmed by the blessed Job, saying: 'I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise from the earth; and I will be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see God. This hope is laid up in my bosom.' (Job 19:25-27) Therefore, let the heretics be ashamed, who falsely claim that the body of the Lord was airy or imaginary, or that it will be ours, or that they believe in metempsychosis.