Resurrection And Revelation

Qui praedestinatus est Filius Dei in virtute secundum spiritum sanctificationis ex resurrectione mortuorum Jesu Christi Domini nostri. Filium Dei dicens, Patrem signficavit Deum; addito autem spiritu sanctificaitonis, 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 terra orta est. Omnis enim ambiguitas et diffidentia resurrectione ejus calcata est, et compressa; siquidem adhuc in cruce positum, centurio videns magnali, Dei Filium confitetur. Nam et discipuli in morte ejus dubitaverunt, dicente Cleopha in Emmaus: Nos putabamus quia ipse erat, qui incipiebat liberare 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 cognsocar ominum esse Dominus. Ideo autem non dixit ex resurrectione Jesu Christi, sed ex resurrectione mortuorum; quia resurrectio Christi generalem tribuit resurrectionem. Haec enim major videtur virtus in Christo et victoria, ut ea potestate 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 I Source: Migne PL 17.49a-c

Who was predestined the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Saying 'the Son of God,' he signified God the Father and adding 'the Spirit of sanctification,' he revealed the mystery of the Trinity. Thus, He who was incarnated, hid what He was, and then predestined according to the Spirit of sanctification, He is revealed in power as the Son of God, when He rose from the dead, as it is written in the eighty fourth Psalm: 'Truth has risen from the earth,' 2 All uncertainty and hestitation by His resurrection was crushed and suppressed, even if while yet on the cross the centurion, seeing great deeds, confesses Him to be the son of God. 3 For even the disciples doubted because of His death, with Cleopas on the way to Emmaus saying: 'We thought that He was the one who was to begin the liberation of Israel.' 4 But the Lord Himself says, 'When you shall lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He.' 5 And again: 'When I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all things to me.' 6 That is, then I will be recognised to be the Lord of all. Therefore the Apostle does not say, 'by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,' but, 'by the resurrection from the dead' because the resurrection of Christ sets forth the general resurrection, since in Christ appears this greater power and victory, that when He was dead He worked that same power He had worked when He was alive. From which is it made apparent that He made a fool of death to redeem us, whence the Apostle calls him our Lord. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The Letter 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