Resurrection And Renewal

Εἰ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντός δυνατὸς ὁ θεὸς ὑφιστᾷν ὄσα βούλεται, πόσῳ μᾶλλον έκ τοῦ ὑφεστῶτος άνακαινίσαί τὰ ἤδη γενόμενα, καὶ εἰς γῆν ὑποστρέψαντασώματα; Ὁτε δὲ ἔσται, καὶ πῶς ἔσται ἀνάστασις, καὶ τὸ μυστήριον τῶν σπειρομένων διδάξει σε, καὶ πάντων τῶν φυτῶν ἡ κίνησις, χειμῶνι τελευτώντων, καὶ ἔαρι ἀναζώντων. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΣΠΔ', Συναδιῳ Source: Migne PG 78.349b

If God can bring from nothing what He will, how much more will He be able to renew bodies that having existed at some time have then passed away into the earth? What will be, and how the resurrection will be, the mystery of sowing shall teach you, the motion of everything grown perishing in winter, and in spring returning to life. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 284, To Synadius