“Christ made himself an example of the life we live now by his labors, his temptations, his sufferings, and his death. In his resurrection he demonstrates the life we will live after death. Without him, all that we would have known about human life is that we are born and we die. We would not have known that anyone could rise from the dead and live forever. He took upon himself the human condition that we all knew and gave us a proof of the resurrected life that we did not know. This is why he has become our hope in distressful times.” – Saint Augustine, On Psalm 60, 4
