Indeed his description of the attempted revivification of the Siege of Troy by a group of infant bandits could hardly be bettered, and his parody of The Married Life of Helen .
No matter how many splendid old buildings are refurbished, downtown revivification does not necessarily follow.
Later his son Richard, 38, expanded the revivification claim, asserting that in 50 or 60 cases Oral and other ministers had raised the dead.