John Trapp on Isaiah 26:19

Ver. 19. Thy dead men ſhall riſe] So ſhall not thine enemies, ver. 14. This may ſeem to be Chriſts gracious anſwer to his poor deſponding people: and it is, ſay ſome, argumentum à beata Reſurrections ſumptum, an argument taken from the happy reſurrection of the righteous; the wicked alſo ſhall be raiſed at the laſt day, but not by the like means, nor for the like bleſſed purpoſe, Dan. 12.2. Some read the words thus, Thy dead, my dead body ſhall live; for the faithful, ſay they, are Chriſts body, Eph. 4.12. and therefore to ſhew this, My dead body is here added by Appoſition; to ſhew how the faithful being dead and buried, are to be accounted of, even Chriſts dead body, &c. and ſhall be raiſed at the laſt day, by vertue of that myſtical union which ſtill they hold with Chriſt. Hence they are ſaid to ſleep in Jeſus, to be dead in Chriſt, Phil. 3.21. who ſhall change our vile body, that it may be faſhioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to ſubdue all things unto himſelf. The Hebrews call a dead corpſe Nepheſh, i. e. a ſoul, Numb. 5.2. & 9, 10. & 19.11. Hag. 2.14. to note that it ſhall live again, and that the ſoul ſhall return to it. At this day alſo they call the Church-yard Bethcaiim the houſe of the living: Leo Modena Hiſt. of Rites of the Iews, pag. 238. and as they return from the burial-place, every one plucks off graſs from off the ground twice or thrice, and caſts it over his head ſaying, florebunt de civitate tanquam foenum terrae, &c. Pſal. 92.12, 13. ſo to ſet forth their hopes of a reſurrection. Neither need it ſeem incredible with any that God ſhould raiſe the dead. Acts 26.8. conſidering what followeth: 1. Together with my dead body ſhall they ariſe, i. e. with Chriſts body raiſed as the firſt fruits of them that ſleep, 1 Cor. 15. One of the Rabbins readeth it, As my dead body, they ſhall ariſe. 2. The force of Chriſts all-powerful voice, ſaying, Awake and ſing ye that dwell in duſt: Ariſe and come away, lift up your heads for your Redemption is at hand. The Reſurrection is in the Syriack called the Conſolation, Joh. 11.24. 3. Thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth ſhall caſt out the dead, i. e. Qua facilitate herbulas reficit Deus, eadem mortuos animare poteſt. God can as eaſily raiſe the dead, as refreſh the herbs of the earth with a reviving dew, when they were even ſcorched to death with the heat of the Sun. See we not a yearly reſurrection of graſs, grain, flowers, fruits every Spring-tide: And ſurely if Nature can produce out of a ſmall ſeed a great Tree, or a Butter-fly out of a worm, or the beautiful featherd Peacock out of a miſhapen egg, cannot the Almighty raiſe our bodies out of duſt, who firſt out of duſt made them? or can the condition of any people or perſon be ſo deſperate, that he is not able to help them out? The aſſurance of Gods power which ſhall ſhew it ſelf in the raiſing of the dead, is a moſt excellent argument to confirm us in the certainty of Gods Promiſes, ſeem they never ſo incredible to fleſh and blood. Atque haec de Cantico.