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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;