This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...687 H trptoTTf KivTiai? iv yeveaiv 6vopw op.ev. Ibid. " Regenerationem quippe hoc loco, ambigente nullo, novissimam reaurrectionem vocat. Aug. contra duas Epist. Pelagian, lib. iii. cap. 3. Z The middle distance betwixt the first and second term, that is to say, the space of life which we lead in this world betwixt the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...687 H trptoTTf KivTiai? iv yeveaiv 6vopw op.ev. Ibid. " Regenerationem quippe hoc loco, ambigente nullo, novissimam reaurrectionem vocat. Aug. contra duas Epist. Pelagian, lib. iii. cap. 3. Z The middle distance betwixt the first and second term, that is to say, the space of life which we lead in this world betwixt the time of our birth and the time of our death, is opposite to the distance that is betwixt the second and third term, that is to say, the state of death under which man lieth from the time of his departure out of this life unto the time of his resurrection; and see, what difference there is betwixt our birth and the life which we spend here after we are born, the same difference is there betwixt death and hades in that other state of our dissolution. That which properly we call death, which is the parting asunder of the soul and the body, standeth as a middle term betwixt the state of life and the state of death, being nothing else but the ending of the one and the beginning of the other, and as it were a common mere between lands, or a communis terminus in a geometrical magnitude, dividing part from part, but being itself a part of neither, and yet belonging equally unto either. Which gave occasion to the question moved by Taurus the philosopher, "592When a dying man might be said to die; when he was now dead, or while he was yet living?" Whereunto Gellius returneth an answer out of Plato, 553that his dying was to be attributed neither to the time of his life nor of his death, (because repugnances would arise either of those ways), but to the time which was in the confine betwixt both, which Plato calleth 5mto ej-ai(pvts, a moment or an instant, and denieth to be properly any part of time at all. Therefore death doth his pa...
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