He is not a God of the dead, but of the living: ye do greatly err.}\par
For to this end Christ died and lived {\i again}, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
(as it is written, {\b A father of many nations have I made thee}) before him whom he believed, {\i even} God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.
Jesus said unto them, {\cf6 Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?
{\b Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,\par\tab And said, They do always err in their heart:\par\tab But they did not know my ways;}
Cease, my son, to hear instruction\par\tab {\i Only} to err from the words of knowledge.
But Jesus answered and said unto them, {\cf6 Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
{\b I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob}? God is not {\i the God} of the dead, but of the living.}
Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.}