1 Let us consider, beloved, how the Master continually proves to us that there will be a future resurrection, of which He has made the first-fruits by raising the [master] Jesus Christ from the dead.

2 Let us look, beloved, at the resurrection which is taking place at its proper season.

3 Day and night show us a resurrection. The night sleeps, the day arises: the day departs, night comes on.

4 Let us take the crops: how and in what way does the sowing take place?

5 "The sower went forth" and cast each of the seeds into the ground, and they fall on to the ground, parched and bare, and suffer decay; then from their decay the greatness of the providence of the Master raises them up, and from one grain more grow and bring forth fruit.