Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter XIII.--Theory of the Soul's Immortality.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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The soul is not in itself immortal, O Greeks, but mortal. [461] Yet it is possible for it not to die. If, indeed, it knows not the truth, it dies, and is dissolved with the body, but rises again at last at the end of the world with the body, receiving death by punishment in immortality. But, again, if it acquires the knowledge of God, it dies not, although for a time it be dissolved. In itself it is darkness, and there is nothing luminous in it. And this is the meaning of the saying, "The darkness comprehendeth not the light." [462] For the soul does not preserve the spirit, but is pre…
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