Much of this paradoxical statement about death is taken from Seneca. See, among other places, his epistle on the premeditation of future dangers, the passage beginning, “Quotidie morimur, quotidie enim demitur aliqua pars vitae.” ↩
Ecclesiasticus 11:28. ↩
Psalm 6:5. ↩
Genesis 2:17. ↩
Galatians 5:17. ↩
Genesis 2:17. ↩
Genesis 3:9. ↩
Genesis 3:19. ↩
Wisdom 9:15. ↩
A translation of part of the Timaeus, given in a little book of Cicero’s, De Universo. ↩
Plato, in the Timaeus, represents the Demiurgus as constructing the kosmos or universe to be a complete representation of the idea of animal. He planted in its centre a soul, spreading outwards so as to pervade the whole body of the kosmos; and then he introduced into it those various species of animals which were contained in the idea of animal. Among these animals stand first the celestial, the gods embodied in the stars; and of these the oldest is the earth, set in the centre of all, close packed round the great axis which traverses the centre of the kosmos.—See the Timaeus and Grote’s Plato, III. 250 et seq. ↩
On these numbers see Grote’s Plato, III. 254. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, VI. 750, 751. ↩
A catena of passages, showing that this is the catholic Christian faith, will be found in Bull’s State of Man Before the Fall (Works, vol. II.). ↩
1 Corinthians 15:42. ↩
Proverbs 3:18. ↩
1 Corinthians 10:4. ↩
Song of Solomon 4:13. ↩
Psalm 42:6. ↩
Psalm 59:9. ↩
Those who wish to pursue this subject will find a pretty full collection of opinions in the learned commentary on Genesis by the Jesuit Pererius. Philo was, of course, the leading culprit, but Ambrose and other Church fathers went nearly as far. Augustine condemns the Seleucians for this among other heresies, that they denied a visible Paradise. —De Haeresibus 59 ↩
Tobit 12:19. ↩
Genesis 2:17. ↩
Romans 8:10, 11. ↩
Genesis 3:19. ↩
“In uno commune factum est omnibus.” ↩
Romans 8:28, 29. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:42–45. ↩
Genesis 2:7. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:47–49. ↩
Galatians 3:27. ↩
Romans 8:24. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:21, 22. ↩
Genesis 2:7. ↩
John 20:22. ↩
Genesis 2:6. ↩
2 Corinthians 4:16. ↩
1 Corinthians 2:11. ↩
Ecclesiastes 3:21. ↩
Psalm 148:8. ↩
Matthew 28:19. ↩
John 4:24. ↩
“Breath,” Eng. ver. ↩
Genesis 1:24. ↩
Ecclesiasticus 24:3. ↩
Revelation 3:16. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:44–49. ↩
This book is referred to in another work of Augustine’s (contra Adversarium Legis et Prophetarum I. 18), which was written about the year 420. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:39. ↩
Romans 3:20. ↩
Galatians 3:11. ↩
John. 1:14. ↩
The Apollinarians. ↩
John. 20:13. ↩
Galatians 5:19–21. ↩
Wisdom 9:15. ↩
2 Corinthians 4:16. ↩
2 Corinthians 5:1–4. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 730–32. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 733, 734. ↩
On the punishment of the devil, see the De Agone Christi, 3–5, and De Natura Boni, 33. ↩
Romans 3:7. ↩
John 14:6. ↩
1 Corinthians 3:3. ↩
1 Corinthians 2:11–14. ↩
1 Corinthians 3:1. ↩
Romans 3:20. ↩
Genesis 46:27. ↩
See Augustine, De Haeresibus 46. ↩
Tusculanae Disputationes IV. 6. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 719–21. ↩
Titus 1:8, according to Greek and Vulgate. ↩
John 21:15–17. On these synonyms see the commentaries in loc. ↩
Psalm 11:5. ↩
1 John 2:15. ↩
2 Timothy 3:2. ↩
Philippians 1:23. ↩
Psalm 119:20. ↩
Wisdom 6:20. ↩
Psalm 32:11. ↩
Psalm 4:7. ↩
Psalm 16:11. ↩
Philippians 2:12. ↩
Romans 11:20. ↩
2 Corinthians 11:3. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 733. ↩
Isaiah 57:21. ↩
Matthew 7:12. ↩
Ecclesiasticus 7:13. ↩
Luke 2:14. ↩
Contra Catilinam I. 2. ↩
Terence Andria II. 1, 6. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 733. ↩
Aeneid, V. 278. ↩
2 Corinthians 7:8–11. ↩
Tusculanae Disputationes III. 32. ↩
