Zeno of Verona on resurrection
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Zeno of Verona, resurrection, paschal liturgyAbstract
Zeno, bishop of Verona († 380) is author of a collection of 96 sermons and liturgical commentaries. His teaching on resurrection is mainly contained in the sermon signed I, 2 – it is in the second sermon of the first part of his collection. His teaching is anthropological and eschatological, concerning the future destiny of the mankind. The author does not deal much with the resurrection of the Christ, nor with the philosophical questions, such as the nature of the human body after the resurrection. The Zeno’s argumentation draws from the Bible, the reason, the nature and the philosophy. From the classical literature Zenon revocates only one work: the Vergil’s Eneid (book VI). The meaning of resurrection by Zenon is not unambiguous. In some places resurrection denotes a state of the perfect happiness of the saved people (the moral meaning), in other is a simple “restitution” of the bodies, necessary for the Final Judgement (the ontological meaning). In another place Zeno states that the resurrection is an award for the right people and he does not explain the destiny of the damned people.
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