Resurrection And Revelation

Qui praedestinatus est Filius Dei in virtute secundum spiritum sanctificationis ex resurrectione mortuorum Jesu Christi Domini nostri. Filium Dei dicens, Patrem significavit Deum; addito autem spiritu sanctificationis, ostendit mysterium Trinitatis. Hic ergo qui incarnatus, quid esset, latebat; tunc praedestinatus est secundum spiritum sanctificationis in virtute manifestari Filius Dei, cum resurgit a mortuis, sicut scriptum est in psalmo octogesimo quarto: Veritas de terra orta est. Omnis enim ambiguitas et diffidentia resurrectione ejus calcata est, et compressa; siquidem adhuc in cruce positum, centurio videns magnalia, Dei Filium confitetur. Nam et discipuli in morte ejus dubitaverunt, dicente Cleopha in Emmaus: Nos putabamus quia ipse erat, qui incipiebat Israel. Et ipse Dominus ait: Cum exaltaveritis Filium hominis, tunc cognoscetis quia ipse ego sum; et iterum: Cum exaltatus fuero a terra omnia traham ad me, id est, tunc cognoscar omnium esse Dominus. Ideo autem non dixit ex resurrectione Jesu Christi, sed ex resurrectione mortuorum; quia resurrectio Christi generelem tribuit resurrectonem. Haec enim major videtur virtus in Christo et victoria, ut ea postestate operaretur mortuus, qua operatus fuerat et vivus. Quo facto apparuit illusisse mortem, ut redimeret nos; unde Dominum nostrum hunc vocat. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam Ad Romanos, Caput Primum Source: Migne PL 17 50

'He who was marked out as the Son of God in the power of the spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.' 1 Saying 'the Son of God' he signifies God the Father, and with the addition of 'the spirit of sanctification' he declares the mystery of the Trinity. He, then, who was incarnated, what He was, was hidden, and then, marked out by the spirit of sanctification, in power He was manifested as the Son of God when He rose from the dead; as it is written in the eighty fourth Psalm: 'Truth from the earth has arisen.' 2 Every uncertainty and lack of confidence is trodden down and crushed by His resurrection. Certainly while He was yet placed on the cross, the centurion, perceiving wonders, confessed the Son of God, 3 but even the disciples doubted in His death, with Cleophas saying in Emmaus: 'We thought that He was the one who would restore Israel.' 4 And the Lord himself said, 'When you have raised up the Son of Man you will know that I am.' 5 and again, 'When I am lifted up from the earth I shall draw all to me.' 6 that is, then I shall be known as the Lord of all. Therefore he does not say 'from the resurrection of Jesus Christ', but 'from the resurrection of the dead,' because the resurrection of Christ was given for the general resurrection. For this power appears greater in Christ, and the victory, being done while dead, than what was done while living. By which He appeared to mock death, that he might redeem us, whence he calls Him Our Lord. Ambrosiaster, from the Commentary On The Epistle of Saint Paul To The Romans, Chapter 1 1 Rom 1.4 2 Ps 84.12 3 Mt 27.54 4 Lk 24.21 5 Jn 8.28 6 Jn 12.32