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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
A treatise on the soul

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1 2 | her function to cure the body, and thereby to have a special 2 2 | her in her domicile of the body. But never mind all this 3 5 | if that may be called a body which rather includes and 4 5 | spirit generated with (the body,) constructs his argument 5 5 | which is generated with (the body,) that the living being 6 5 | which is generated with (the body) is a corporeal substance. 7 5 | which is generated with (the body) is the soul: it follows, 8 5 | certainly sympathizes with the body, and shares in its pain, 9 5 | and wounds, and sores: the body, too, suffers with the soul, 10 5 | things which are endued with body to be separated from things 11 5 | from things which have not body; because they have no such 12 5 | potest res."~"For nothing but body is capable of touching or 13 5 | between the soul and the body); for when the body is deserted 14 5 | the body); for when the body is deserted by the soul, 15 5 | therefore, is endued with a body; for if it were not corporeal, 16 5 | it could not desert the body.~ 17 6 | subtilty than by truth. Every body, they say, has necessarily 18 6 | the giver of motion to the body. It evidently, then, is 19 6 | called either an animate body or an inanimate one, inasmuch 20 6 | soul itself which makes the body either animate, if it be 21 6 | being called an animate body or an inanimate one, how 22 6 | it is characteristic of a body to be moved externally by 23 6 | thing is characteristic of a body, how much more is it so 24 6 | But the soul moves the body, all whose efforts are apparent 25 6 | has its contact with the body; not to say that the incorporeal 26 6 | entirely remove from the body? Soranus, then, after discoursing 27 6 | after day, bear not one body, but even two and three 28 7 | statement about the limbs of a body, if these had no existence. 29 7 | after the separation of the body; which is there detained; 30 7 | refreshment. That must be a body, by which punishment and 31 8 | which carries about the body, which eventually assumes 32 9 | aver that the soul has a body of a quality and kind peculiar 33 9 | we have shown it to be a body, but that even they have 34 9 | the special nature of the body (to which they belong); 35 9 | if any accidents (of a body) are remarkable in this 36 9 | usual characteristics of a body, such as invariably accrue 37 9 | other than the shape of that body which each individual soul 38 9 | throughout all the spaces of the body; and as soon as by the divine 39 9 | the other members of the body by the help of which it 40 9 | was associated with Adam's body, which grew with its growth 41 14| respectively certain parts of the body as their special domiciles, 42 14| of the soul; for even the body itself would not admit of 43 14| number of the limbs one body is made up, so that the 44 14| diffused over the entire body, and yet in every part the 45 14| offices and functions in the body they are to be severally 46 15| losing those parts of their body in which the soul's principle 47 15| particular recess of the body. For, when one reads of 48 15| most precious part of our body to which God especially 49 15| about through the whole body; nor with Plato, that it 50 17| For if the soul had no body, it would have no sensation. 51 17| the reality of a perfect body. Now, not even to His apostles 52 18| possession of knowledge? Will the body be a hindrance to it or 53 18| himself) from the whole of his body, on the ground of its disturbing 54 18| objects by means of the body, in exactly the same way 55 20| addition to the state of one's body or one's health, tend to 56 22| God, immortal, possessing body, having form, simple in 57 23| congealed around it a mortal body,--thereby indicating that 58 24| soul's entrance into the body, does memory fail, as if 59 24| undoubtedly prior to the body, was of course not irrespective 60 24| soul's entrance into the body that oblivion takes place, 61 24| soul's assumption of the body. But then, again, Plato 62 24| throws the blame upon the body, as if it were at all credible 63 24| danger, or joy. Now, if the body is not prejudicial to divination, 64 24| that souls in the same body both forget and remember. 65 25| the selfsame parts of the body, taking to himself thus 66 25| infuse a soil into both body and soul from an illicit 67 26| Well, was it then a dead body at that early stage? Certainly 68 27| XXVII. SOUL AND BODY CONCEIVED, FORMED AND PERFECTED 69 27| Is the substance of both body and soul formed together 70 27| else than the separation of body and soul, life, which is 71 27| than the conjunction of body and soul. If the severance 72 27| give to the seed of the body, and what to the seed of 73 27| kinds of seed--that of the body and that of the soul--we 74 27| deriving its fluidity from the body, and its warmth from the 75 27| it come to pass that the body grows cold after the soul 76 28| reducing the frame of his body to the horrid appearance 77 31| which animated each several body must needs have returned 78 31| not the selfsame forms of body, at least their original 79 32| be, that every individual body of whatever size is filled 80 32| entirely covered by the body. How, therefore, shall a 81 32| adaptation of some other body, comes to nought, and is 82 33| its separation from the body, was not dissipated back 83 33| which it has done in the body;" --(even supposing all 84 33| see how it has got a man's body for its tomb, and has risen 85 33| sword's last stroke, his body at all events must not escape 86 34| wandering about in this way from body to body, she, in her final 87 34| in this way from body to body, she, in her final disgrace, 88 35| time into the prison of the body. To this effect does he 89 35| that it may be driven from body to body, until it be found 90 35| may be driven from body to body, until it be found in none 91 35| its return to some other body. But Elias is to come again, 92 35| of being restored to the body, from which he had not departed, 93 35| observe) in his soul and his body. These substances are, in 94 36| at the same time as the body, receives likewise along 95 37| demonstrated the conjunction of the body and the soul, from the concretion 96 38| aspect of the association of body and soul which We have now 97 38| coincides with that of the body, and that they attain both 98 38| has regard rather to the body than to the soul, although 99 40| XL. THE BODY OF MAN ONLY ANCILLARY TO 100 40| something of that kind: it is body, not soul. Now a cup may 101 41| intercepted by an opaque body, still remains, although 102 41| interposition of so dense a body; so likewise the good in 103 42| death, which dissolves the body and destroys the senses, 104 43| procuring rest for the body only, not for the soul also. 105 43| operation. It is indeed on the body, which is subject to mortality, 106 43| to mortality, and on the body alone, that sleep graciously 107 43| agency for recruiting the body, for restoring its energies, 108 43| before your view the human body stricken by the friendly 109 43| it has even without the body, how well equipped it is 110 43| has of impressing on some body its activity again. Accordingly, 111 43| again. Accordingly, when the body shakes off its slumber, 112 44| SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE BODY UNTIL DEATH.~With regard 113 44| it wandered away from his body like a person on a holiday 114 44| finding him asleep, burnt his body, as if it were a corpse: 115 44| separation of the soul from the body, credulity should not be 116 44| positive separation from his body? You may conjecture it to 117 44| of flights away from the body without death, and that 118 45| help from the limbs of the body, it uses its own. Imagine 119 45| The sleep came on his body to cause it to rest, but 120 48| regards the position of one's body during sleep, one ought 121 49| tenderness of their infantine body. The fact, however, that 122 51| SEPARATES THE SOUL FROM THE BODY.~But the operation of death 123 51| it is the separation of body and soul. Some, however, 124 51| certain souls cleave to the body even after death. It is 125 51| says, unseparated from the body. To the same purport also 126 51| if the substance of the body itself were unusually dry 127 51| can possibly remain in the body, which is itself destined 128 51| entire scene on which the body has played its part. And 129 51| account they will not have the body consumed at its funeral 130 51| the interest even of the body; since, being human, it 131 51| among our own people, that a body voluntarily made way in 132 51| afford room for another body to be placed near to it. 133 52| separation of the soul from the body. Putting out of the question 134 52| companionship of soul and body, so inseparable a growth 135 52| the vessel of the human body goes with unbroken timbers 136 53| FRACTIONALLY WITHDRAWN FROM THE BODY.~But where at last will 137 53| bare and divested of the body? We must certainly not hesitate 138 53| conditions of the human body. Of course, with the view 139 53| for it withdraws (from the body) with all the circumstances 140 53| this phenomenon is in the body, and arises from the body. 141 53| body, and arises from the body. For whatever be the kind 142 53| then, as these parts of the body are severally devastated 143 53| suffering. Likewise the body's charioteer, the animal 144 53| Platonic phrase, indeed, the body is a prison, but in the 145 54| RETIRE WHEN IT QUITS THE BODY? OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS 146 56| FROM HADES OWING TO THE BODY'S BEING UNBURIED. THAT SOULS 147 56| PREMATURELY SEPARATED FROM THE BODY HAD TO WAIT FOR ADMISSION 148 56| soul's de- parture from the body; whether some souls are 149 56| and requirements of the body, or carry any of them away 150 56| on earth after losing the body by death? One's age cannot 151 56| be passed without one's body, it being by help of the 152 56| it being by help of the body that the period of life 153 56| be managed without one's body? Life (spent) without life? 154 56| its age on quitting the body, remains unchanged in the 155 57| becomes visible, is because a body is also attached to it; 156 57| reality (of the revived body), that its true form must 157 58| soul always tarry for the body, in order to experience 158 58| without any pain to the body, is the soul alone tortured 159 58| for the moment from the body's importunate society? I 160 58| the very tortures of the body. Look for instance, at the 161 58| sorrow even without the body; since when in the flesh 162 58| when it likes, though the body is unhurt; and when it likes 163 58| it feels joy though the body is in pain. Now if such 164 58| to effect by help of the body. In no case, indeed, can


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