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Introductory Note.

[1784] It is difficult to say what Tertullian means by his “comicum credo.” Is it a playful parody on the heretic’s name, the same as the comic poet’s (Menander)?

[1785] Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5.

[1786] 2 Kings ii. 11.

[1787] Rev. xi. 3.

[1788] John xxi. 23.

Chapter LI.—Death Entirely Separates the Soul from the Body.

[1789] See below, ch. liv.

[1790] Ch. x. p. 614.

[1791] Vernaculam ecclesiæ.

Chapter LII.—All Kinds of Death a Violence to Nature, Arising from Sin.—Sin an Intrusion Upon Nature as God Created It.

[1792] Ex accidentia.

[1793] In mortem directo institutus est. [See p. 227, supra.]

Chapter LIII.—The Entire Soul Being Indivisible Remains to the Last Act of Vitality; Never Partially or Fractionally Withdrawn from the Body.

[1794] We have made Tertullian’s “cervicum messis” include both these modes of instantaneous death.

[1795] Phædo, p. 62, c. 6.

[1796] 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16.

Chapter LIV.—Whither Does the Soul Retire When It Quits the Body? Opinions of Philosophers All More or Less Absurd. The Hades of Plato.

[1797] An Alexandrian philosopher in great repute with the Emperor Augustus.

[1798] Phædo, pp. 112–114.

Chapter LV.—The Christian Idea of the Position of Hades; The Blessedness of Paradise Immediately After Death. The Privilege of the Martyrs.

[1799] Matt. xii. 40.

[1800] 1 Cor. xv. 3.

[1801] 1 Cor. 15.4.

[1802] 1 Pet. iii. 19.

[1803] See Irenæus, adv. Hæres. v. [Vol. I. p. 566, this Series.]

[1804] Matt. x. 24.

 

 

 

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