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Unto the resurrection of life (eis anastasin zōēs). Anastasis is an old word (Aeschylus) from anistēmi, to raise up, to arise. This combination occurs nowhere else in the N.T. nor does “the resurrection of judgment” (eis anastasin kriseōs), but in Luk 14:14 there is the similar phrase “in the resurrection of the just” (en tēi anastasei tōn dikaiōn). Only there note both articles. Here without the articles it can mean “to a resurrection of life” and “to a resurrection of judgment,” though the result is practically the same. There are two resurrections as to result, one to life, one to judgment. See both in Dan 12:2.