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Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty · Catechism · 1425

Faith Q&A › Catechism › 6. The Resurrected Body

Is the body that will rise other than the body that we have now in this world?

The answer

The scholar Origen says, “So also are we to consider, with respect to the nature of the body, that the one which we now make use of in a state of meanness, and corruption, and weakness, is not a different body from that which we shall possess in incorruption, and in power, and in glory; but that the same body, when it has cast away the infirmities in which it is now entangled, shall be transmuted into a condition of glory, being rendered spiritual, so that what was a vessel of dishonour may, when cleansed, become a vessel unto honour, and an abode of blessedness.”1317

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

1317 Origen of Alexandria, De Principiis (On First Principles) 3.6.6 (ANF 4:347).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volumes 1 and 2, Books 1–7. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.