RESURRECTION

(Lat. resurgo, I rise again.) The history of the resurrection of our Saviour is detailed in the separate narration of each of the four Evangelists, and is also referred to and insisted on in the Acts of the Apostles, and in every one of the Epistles. The importance of this history, as an evidence of the truth of Christianity, is pointed out in a peculiar manner by VaXey {Evidences, part 2. ch.8.); namely, that it was alleged from the beginning by all the propagators of Christianity, and relied on as the great test of the doctrines which they taught; consequently, if the fact be untrue, they must all have been either deceivers, or deceived in a point on which it is morally impo ible they could be so. [s. 1062]