Moses And The Resurrection

Ὁ παντοδύναμος Θεὸς, ὁ τὴν ῥάβδον Μωϋσέως ἐξηραμένην καὶ ἄφλοιον παραδόξως μεταβαλὼν εἰς ζῶον ἔμψυχόν τε καὶ ἕρπον δράκων γὰρ ἧν φοβερὸς, καὶ φεύγει Μωϋσῆς τὸ θαῦμα καταπλαγεὶς, καὶ ὁ τὴν τοῠ Ἀαρὼν ῥάβδον ξηρὰν πολυχρόνιον ὑπαρχουσαν δίχα γῆς, καὶ ῥίζης, καὶ ὅμβρων, καὶ εὐκρασίας ἀέρων, τῇ θελήσει καὶ μόνῃ διὰ μιᾶς νυκτὸς ἐκβλαστῆσαι ποιήσας, φύλλα τε χαριέστατα, καὶ καρπὸν ὡραιότατον, παντα γὰρ δυνατὰ Θεῷ παντοκράτορι καὶ πάντα ἰσχύοντι· αὐτὸς ἐν ῥιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ ἐξαναστήσει καιρῷ τῷ προσήκοντι τὰ ἀνθρώπεια σώματα, θάλλοντα τῇ ἑαυτοῦ χάριτι, καὶ ἀγλαῖζόμενα ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον, ὥστε ὑπερνικῆσαι τῇ θείᾳ λαμπρότητι τὰς αὐγὰς τοῦ ἀψύχου ἡλίου. Καὶ πειθέτω σε Μωϋσῆς ὁ γνήσιος θεράπων τοῦ κρείττονος, φωσφόρος κατελθὼν ἐκ τοῦ Σιναίου ὅρους, καὶ τὸν χρῶτα δεδοξασμένος ταῖς λαμπηδόσον, ὅπως διὰ τοῦ φαινομένου προδείξῃ τὴν μέλλουσαν χάριν ὑψόθεν ἁνθρώποις παρέχεσθαι. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΡΙΓ' Ἀφθονιῳ Σαμαριτῃ Source: Migne PG 79.132b-c

The almighty God who wonderously dried up and made unleathery the staff of Moses, having changed it into an animal, even a serpent, which was so terrible that Moses fled the miracle, 1 and who made Aaron's dry staff of many years, without earth, or roots, or rains, or temperate air, by His will alone, in one night, shoot forth as a seed with a covering of leaves and fair fruit, 2 (for everything to the omnipotent God, to whom all is obedient, is possible,) in the blink of an eye shall, when the time arrives, raise up the human body, His grace bursting forth, which is such a fair thing that the Divine splendour of it greatly surpasses the rays of the inanimate sun. Let Moses, a true servant of the greatest, persuade you, he who came down from Sinai bearing light,his body glorified with splendour, by which appearance is foreshown from on high the grace to come to men. Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 113, to Aphthonius The Samaritan 1 Exod 4.3 2 Numb 17.8