What is the resurrection of the soul, of which the apostle speaks, saying, “If then you have been raised with Christ”? [It] is a breath of life through hope in the resurrection, and by it the dawning of divine wisdom shine in his heart, so that a man should become new, having nothing of the old man. Then the image of Christ is formed in us through the Spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him.

—Isaac of Nineveh, Ascetical Homilies 37