An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV
An excerpt from the author's note TO THE READER. IN ancient times it was held as a matter of faith by many, that man's spiritual part did not go at once to its ultimate state of existence, but did undergo a kind of purification, by the passing from one body to another of a better or worse kind; until, being thus corrected of its earthly desires and propensions, it was fitted for its final beatitude. Pythagoras, it was said by some, had good recollection of the time when his soul was far worse bestowed than in that body wherein he preached temperance and virtue so effectually to the citizens of Crotona, as to raise that city at once to greatness, and its people to a merited superiority over their neighbours of Sybaris: - a body kept in such holiness and purity by its beatified inhabitant, that we may well believe it fitted for that resurrection of the just, where "they that do well shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever."
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An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV
An excerpt from the author's note TO THE READER. IN ancient times it was held as a matter of faith by many, that man's spiritual part did not go at once to its ultimate state of existence, but did undergo a kind of purification, by the passing from one body to another of a better or worse kind; until, being thus corrected of its earthly desires and propensions, it was fitted for its final beatitude. Pythagoras, it was said by some, had good recollection of the time when his soul was far worse bestowed than in that body wherein he preached temperance and virtue so effectually to the citizens of Crotona, as to raise that city at once to greatness, and its people to a merited superiority over their neighbours of Sybaris: - a body kept in such holiness and purity by its beatified inhabitant, that we may well believe it fitted for that resurrection of the just, where "they that do well shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever."
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| ISBN-13: | 9781663532572 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 07/13/2020 |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.08(d) |
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