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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
A treatise on the soul

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1 2 | all things are capable of being compared together; she describes 2 2 | a mastery over nature as being associated with its creation. 3 2 | of such simple cases as being free from the entanglement 4 4 | have made no mistake: for being born, indeed, is one thing, 5 4 | indeed, is one thing, and being made is another,--the former 6 4 | is another,--the former being the term which is best suited 7 4 | among themselves. Thus, the being made admits of being taken 8 4 | the being made admits of being taken in the sense of being 9 4 | being taken in the sense of being brought forth; inasmuch 10 4 | everything which receives being or existence, in any way 11 4 | our belief in the souls being made or born, the opinion 12 5 | departure causes the living being to die is a corporeal one. 13 5 | the body,) that the living being dies; therefore the spirit 14 5 | also. It is therefore as being corporeal that it is susceptible 15 5 | capable of touching or of being touched."~(Such severance, 16 6 | is the soul admits not of being called an animate body or 17 6 | incorporeal, its properties being comprehended by the perception 18 6 | substances; whereas the soul, as being an incorporeal essence, 19 7 | incorporeal is incapable of being kept and guarded in any 20 8 | others are invisible; some being weighty, others light. They 21 8 | they ought to be lighter, being deprived of the weight of 22 8 | to the spirit. Thus John, being "in the Spirit" of God, 23 9 | the soul is immortal; and being immortal, it is therefore 24 9 | therefore indissoluble; and being indissoluble, it is figureless: 25 9 | resembling that of a human being in every respect." This 26 10| the spirit, respiration being the function of that of 27 11| natural substance; to respire being an act of nature. I would 28 12| the soul,--not indeed as being distinct from it in substance, 29 12| it in substance, but as being its natural function and 30 13| or life) which He forbids being made too much of; it is 31 14| NOT A MATERIAL DISSECTION.~Being thus single, simple, and 32 14| itself, it is as incapable of being composed and put together 33 14| constituents, as it is of being divided in and of itself, 34 14| regarded some of them as being. For they are not portions 35 14| by means of the senses, being not indeed divided, but 36 15| when one reads of God as being "the searcher and witness 37 16| equally derived from God, as being a natural production, because 38 17| nature has the distinction of being a rational animal, with 39 18| the creation of the world, being understood by the things 40 19| WITH THE SOUL IN THE HUMAN BEING. AN EXAMPLE FROM ARISTOTLE 41 19| more may that of a human being, whose soul (which may be 42 19| testimony; while the other, by being slaughtered, for His sake 43 21| many mental dispositions (being developed out of it), it 44 21| old) serpent as far from being incidental to his nature 45 21| his nature as it was from being material in him, for we 46 21| us to inquire whether, as being called natural, it ought 47 21| determined to be twofold--there being the category of the born 48 21| received its constitution by being made or by being born, is 49 21| constitution by being made or by being born, is by nature capable 50 21| is by nature capable of being changed, for it can be both 51 21| to God alone, as the only Being who is unborn and not-made ( 52 24| if the soul is to merit being accounted a god, by reason 53 24| reason of all its qualities being equal to the attributes 54 24| him,--but this alone, as being alone a natural instinct. 55 24| eternal, on the ground of its being unborn, since it admits 56 24| affected by time? for the soul, being undoubtedly prior to the 57 25| plunged into cold water; for, being smitten by the cold air ( 58 25| tells us that the soul, being quite a separate formation, 59 25| care; its last appendage being a blunted or covered hook, 60 25| well enough that a living being had been conceived, and 61 25| put to death, to escape being tortured alive. Of the necessity 62 25| if their souls came into being amidst nipping frosts; for 63 26| each their own offspring, being moreover each recognised 64 27| How, then, is a living being conceived? Is the substance 65 27| and rank of each. And that being so, what time shall we give 66 27| realization. The entire man being excited by the one effort 67 32| grave, when he preferred being roasted by a plunge into 68 32| to have no respiration, being unfurnished with lungs and 69 32| again, shall it, after being nourished with generous 70 32| the other laws of their being, will it then undergo a 71 34| the offspring of another being; and that, after being on 72 34| another being; and that, after being on this account exposed 73 35| not for the purpose of being restored to the body, from 74 36| follow from them. The soul, being sown in the womb at the 75 36| even then herself a living being, because I should regard 76 37| therefore becomes a human being in the womb from the moment 77 37| the rudiment of a human being, which has imputed to it 78 37| originally implanted in its being, is gradually developed 79 38| would insist on the soul's being from this circumstance deemed 80 38| desire as a property of being, another thing to desire 81 38| the view, certainly, of being himself the foundation of 82 38| solely with the view of being accommodated and housed, 83 39| depraved by the malignant being who, in the beginning, regarded 84 40| flesh the human person, as being some faculty of his soul, 85 41| likewise the good in the soul, being weighed down by the evil, 86 41| not seen at all, its light being wholly hidden, or else only 87 41| of its primeval good; and being conscious of its origin, 88 41| soul embraces the faith, being renewed in its second birth 89 41| of its former corruption being taken away, it beholds the 90 42| to be incidental to the being to whom action belongs. 91 43| refreshed by sleep instead of being fatigued. Besides, sleep 92 43| soul also. For the soul, as being always in motion, and always 93 44| admonition from the Divine Being either in the way of warning 94 45| accrues to human bodies, it being their own especial comfort, 95 47| actual grace of God, as being honest, holy, prophetic, 96 47| inspiration, nor from the soul, being beyond the reach as well 97 47| interpretation, or the possibility of being intelligibly related, will 98 48| the companions of Daniel, being content with pulse alone, 99 48| rather serve to recommend its being wrought by God.~ 100 50| Medea herself--over a human being at any rate, if allowed 101 51| feeble a hold through not being taught of God, maintain 102 51| to the nerves themselves being relaxed and extended, and 103 51| even of the body; since, being human, it is itself undeserving 104 53| LIII. THE ENTIRE SOUL BEING INDIVISIBLE REMAINS TO THE 105 53| suggests to us the idea of being annihilated by the slow 106 53| that the soul also itself, being driven to abandon each successive 107 53| assumes the appearance of being lessened to nothing; in 108 55| although Christ is God, yet, being also man, "He died according 109 55| With the same law of His being He fully complied, by remaining 110 55| partakers of Himself. (This being the case), you must suppose 111 56| HADES OWING TO THE BODY'S BEING UNBURIED. THAT SOULS PREMATURELY 112 56| suppose them capable of being shortened; or if, notwithstanding 113 56| passed without one's body, it being by help of the body that 114 56| then, is to prevent its being fulfilled in Hades, where 115 57| there is hardly a human being who is unattended by a demon;


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