Excerpt from The Resurrection in the New Testament: An Examination of the Earlest References to the Rising of Jesus and of Christians From the Dead In any case, the man of the twentieth century must be dissuaded from arguing against the miracles associated with the physical resurrection by the remembrance that the critical first four centuries of the church's life exhausted all such argument. No thing can be said to-day that was not said then, by Trypho or Celsus or Porphyry or some other of the critics of the Christian preaching. Nothing is more sobering for the modern critic than a study of the fathers.i An impressive and instructive example of what is meant may be found in the twenty-second book of Augustine's Civitas Def, notably the fifth chapter, and chapters eleven to twenty-one. If modern apologetic must often go another way than Augustine's, modern criticism must still more defi nitely part company with his opponents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.