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A TREATISE ON THE SOUL AND ITS ORIGIN IBD

ST AUGUSTINE / STAUGUSTINE / PETER HOLMES
LIGHTHOUSE PUBLISHING
08 / 2018
9781643730400
Inglés

Sinopsis

&ldquo,At that time one Vincentius discovered in the possession of a certain presbyter called Peter, in Mauritania Cæsariensis, a little work of mine, in a particular passage of which, touching the origin of souls in individual men, I had confessed that I knew not whether they are propagated from the primeval soul of the first man, and from that by parental descent, or whether they are severally assigned to each person without propagation, as the first was to Adam, but that I was, at the same time, quite sure that the soul was not body, but spirit. In opposition to these opinions of mine, he addressed to this Peter two books, which were sent to me from Cæsarea by the monk Renatus. Having read these books, I replied in four others, &mdash,one addressed to the monk Renatus, another to the presbyter Peter, and two more to Victor himself. That to Peter, however, though it has all the lengthiness of a book, is yet only a letter, which I did not like to be kept separate from the other three works. In all of them, while discussing many points which were unavoidable, I defended my hesitancy on the point of the origin of the souls which are given to individual men, and I pointed out this man&rsquo,s many errors and presumptuous pravity. At the same time, I treated the young man as gently as I could, &mdash,not as one who ought to be denounced all out of hand, but as one who ought to ábe still instructed, and I accepted the account of his conduct which he wrote back to me. In this work of mine, the book addressed to Renatus begins with these words: &ldquo,Your sincerity towards us,&rdquo, while that which was written to Peter begins thus: &ldquo,To his Lordship, my dearly beloved brother and co-presbyter Peter.&rdquo, Of the last two books, which are addressed to Vincentius Victor, the former one thus opens: &ldquo,As to that which I have thought it my duty to write to you.&rdquo,