The Two Trumps

Exsurgent, inquit Isaias, mortui, et resurgent qui in monumentis sunt. Et Dominus: Veniet hora quando mortui audient vocem Filii Dei; et qui audierint, vivent. Ad haec Apostolus: In momento, in ictu oculi, in novissima tuba; canet enim tuba, et mortui resurgent incorrupti. Quae ista tuba, quae inferis infert bellum, sepulchri resolvit moles, intonat mortuis vitam, resurgentibus in lucem perpetem dat triumphum? Quae est? Illa quam superius Dominus dixit: Mortui audient vocem Filii Dei. Tuba non quae arctato spiritu per concavum cornu ligni vel aeris trsitem bellantibus dat mugitum, sed quae de corde Patris, ore Filii, vitalem simul et inferis et superis dat clamorem. Et in novissima tuba; tuba quae in principio mundum vocavit ex nihilo, ipsa in novissimo mundum revocabit ex perdito; et quae initio hominem suscitavit ex limo, ipsa in fine hominem resuscitabit ex pulvere. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo CIII, De Filio Viduae Excitato a Mortuis, deque Corporum Resurrectione Source: Migne PL 52 487c-488a

'The dead,' says Isaiah, 'will come forth, and those who are in the tombs shall rise.' 1 And the Lord: 'The hour will come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.' 2 And the Apostle says, 'In a instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trump, the trump shall sound and the dead will rise imperishable and we shall be changed.' 3 'At the last trump.' What is this trump, which wages war on the underworld, dislodges tombstones from graves, signals life for the dead, and bestows victory on those who rise to perpetual light? What is it? It is what the Lord said above: 'The dead will hear the voice of the Son of God.' This trumpet is not a horn of wood or bronze that gives a grim bellow to the soldiers by a breath compressed through its hollows, but from the heart of the Father and the mouth of the Son it sends forth a summons to life, simulataneously both to those in the underworld and to those above. 'At the last trump.' The trump which in the beginning called forth the world out of nothing, is the same one which on the last day will call the world back from destruction, and the trump which in the beginning raised man from the mud, is the same one that in the end will raise man again from the dust. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 103, On The Son of the Widow Raised from the Dead and the Resurrection of the Body 1 Is 26. 29 2 Jn 5.28 3  1 Cor 15.52