Remains upon the wick nor passes to some other place, but completelyĭisappears, how can such a change be borne without emotion by one who Of an extinguished lamp which burnt on it the moment before neither Whatever it might be, disappears all at once out of sight, as the flame Or steel to him, even if you were to plunge a sword into the body, orĬast it to the beasts of prey, or if you bury it beneath a mound, thatĭead man is alike unmoved at any treatment? Seeing, then, that thisĬhange is observed in all these ways, and that principle of life, Or any other faculty of apprehension that sense possesses and if you Of every bodily organ extinct, with no sight or hearing in operation, Spoke becoming all of a sudden lifeless and motionless, with the sense Grieving, I replied to her, when we see one who so lately lived and This common talk of unthinking persons is no sufficient You feel, asked the Teacher, in the mere necessity itself of dying? Terrible to us, how can it be easy for a survivor to obey this command Gates, except that we fear to die? Death then being naturally so Why do we haveĬorslets, and long shields, and greaves, and helmets, and all theĭefensive armour, and inclosures of fortifications, and iron-barred Medicine so honoured amongst men? Because it is thought to carry on theĬombat with death to a certain extent by its methods. We are to go on living is occasioned by the fear of dying. It but the providing of our sustenance? In fact all thought about how That houses have been invented by us to live in in order that ourīodies may not be prostrated in their environment by cold or heat. how we may continue in this life indeed it is for this Live? We see before us the whole course of human life aiming at this Stranger, not to mention that of relations, when so be they cease to To regard as nothing a departure from life even in the case of a By what device, then, can we bring ourselves Why, even the law thatĬontrols us puts death highest on the list of crimes, and highest on On a death-bed can hardly bear the sight and those whom deathĪpproaches recoil from him all they can. Instinctive and deep-seated abhorrence of death in all! Those who look How can that ever be practised by mankind? There is such an With a heart still fermenting with my pain, I Them that sleep” because only “men without hope” She quoted theĪpostle’s words about the duty of not being “grieved for The curb of her reasonings the disorder of my soul. Grief and then she tried to check me by speaking, and to correct with Little while, like a skilful driver, in the ungovernable violence of my The sight of the Teacher awakened all my pain for she too was lying inĪ state of prostration even unto death. But when we were in each other’s presence Grievous blow, and I sought for one who could feel it equally, to My soul was right sorrow-stricken by this The Teacher was still living and so I journeyed to her, yearning for an interchange of sympathy Impulse to mourn for him was shared by all the churches. Great amongst the saints, had departed from this life to God and the 173132 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/ Volume V/ Philosophical Works/ On the Soul and the Resurrection - On the Soul and the Resurrection Philip Schaff et al.
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