Every saint from the beginning had life in the Son of God: impossible to live to God, as all did, without life in Him. But now the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ wrought in a more triumphant way in Him who as Sin-Bearer entered the dark portals of the grave which closed on all others, and so glorified God that He could not but raise Him from among the dead in virtue of a life which death could in no wise touch, so complete that henceforth we belong not to death, but rather death to us. Thus did God beget us again through Christ's resurrection out of the dead. [21]