On the Soul and the Resurrection

On the Soul and the Resurrection. ———————————— Argument. The mind, in times of bereavement, craves a certainty gained by reasoning as to the existence of the soul after death.

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amounts to nothing less than the abandoning of virtue, and seeking the pleasure of the moment only; the life of eternity, by which alone virtue claims the advantage, must be despaired of.

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sees and the mind that hears1761. Else, if you will not allow this to be true, you must tell me why, when you look at the sun, as you have been trained by your instructor to look at him, you assert that he is not in the…

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our nature; and so our reason, following the leading of these reflections, will not miss grasping the Mind in its essence by clearing away from the question all corporeal qualities; nor on the other hand will it bring…

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the reasoning animal man being capable of understanding and knowing is most surely attested by those outside our faith; and that this definition would never have sketched our nature so, if it had viewed anger and desire…

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And who, she replied, could deny that truth is to be found only in that upon which the seal of Scriptural testimony is set? So, if it is necessary that something from the Gospels should be adduced in support of our…

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and remain by itself, we suppose that our artist will none the less remember the actual nature of that colour, and that in no case will he show forgetfulness, either of the red, for instance, or the black, if after…

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τὸν δίκαιον. Most of Krabinger’s Codd. read τὸν πλούσιον. is occupied with his present blessings (ἄσχολος τοῖς παροῦσιν); surely not, with Oehler, “is not occupied with the present world”! κόλλης.

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Gregory of Nyssa of the punishment is mitigated, so far as the subject itself, in the amount of its evil, is diminished. In any and every case evil must be removed out of existence, so that, as we said above, the…

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these theories? This that those who would have it that the soul migrates into natures divergent from each other seem to me to obliterate all natural distinctions; to blend and confuse together, in every possible…

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to have a longing after virtue, because it will be a thing quite foreign to their nature. But, as a fact1882, they who by reflecting have cleansed the vision of their soul do all of them desire and strive after a life…

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But, said she, which of these points has been left unnoticed in what has been said? Why, the actual doctrine of the Resurrection, I replied.

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to the Resurrection, and neglect the strongest one of all? For who has not heard that human life is like a stream, moving from birth to death at a certain rate of progress, and then only ceasing from that progressive…

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But any one would more fully comprehend the futility and irrelevancy of all these objections by trying to fathom the depths of our Apostle’s wisdom.

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