Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 24

Chapter XXIV.&#8212;God Continually Shows Us in Nature that There Will Be a Resurrection.

Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually proves to us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has rendered the Lord Jesus Christ the first-fruits by raising Him from the dead.&#160; Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place.&#160; Day and night declare to us a resurrection.&#160; The night sinks to sleep, and the day arises; the day [again] departs, and the night comes on.&#160; Let us behold the fruits [of the earth], how the sowing of grain takes place.&#160; The sower goes forth, and casts it into the ground, and the seed being thus scattered, though dry and naked when it fell upon the earth, is gradually dissolved.&#160; Then out of its dissolution the mighty power of the providence of the Lord raises it up again, and from one seed many arise and bring forth fruit.