3 This is the heart and soul of that Gospel as I received it and gave it to you, and the whole of it is contained in this, that according to the meaning of the Scriptures
4 the Christ died for our sins and was buried, and then according to the same truth of the Scriptures the Christ rose on the third day.
5 The witnesses of this resurrection are first Cephas, then the twelve,
6 then over five hundred brethren most of whom are alive at the present day,
7 then James, then all the Apostles. These all saw him alive and triumphant after death, and the appearances were in the order I have mentioned.
8 And last of all I myself saw the risen Christ,
9 last as though I were the least and unworthiest of all, the persecutor that is to say of that divine Church of God, which is His infinite body.