through apotheosis or deification, but there is one big difference. Upon death the emperor became a divus (deified one), whereas it was the emperor’s designated heir left on earth who was then called divi filius (“son of the divine one”). We know of no one from antiquity who became a Son of God by resurrection.32 A more likely scenario is that while the resurrection did not mark the beginning of Jesus’s divine sonship, it instead signified a change in the ages with a consequent change in the mode