The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

and in the daylight in the sight of all it flies to the altar of the Sun, places them there, and then starts back to its former home.

Then the priests inspect the registers of dates, and they find that it has come at the fulfilment of the 500th year.[*](The same story, with variations, is found in Herodotus (ii. 73), Pliny (Nat. Hist. x. 2), etc. It was supposed by Christians to be sanctioned by the LXX version of Ps. xcii. 12, where there is a confusion between φοῖνιξ = phoenix, and φοῖνιξ = palm tree.)

Do we then consider it a great and wonderful[*](The resurrection promised in the Scriptures) thing that the creator of the universe will bring about the resurrection of those who served him in holiness, in the confidence of a good faith, when he shows us the greatness of his promise even through a bird?

For he says in one place And thou shalt raise me up, and I will praise thee, and I laid me down and slept, I rose up, for thou art with me.