The implication is that if every knee will bow, then there must be a “restitution of all things” (i.e. But while the latter proceeded, on the subject of the soul, as far in the direction of supposed consequences as the thinker pleased, we are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please we make the Holy Scriptures the rule and the measure of every tenet we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings…we will adopt, as the guide of our reasoning, the Scripture, which lays it down as an axiom that there is no excellence in the soul which is not a property as well of the Divine nature…we will speak upon these points by making our study of them so far as we can follow the chain of Scriptural tradition.Īfter speculating about the soul and the passions, the work begins to speculate about how “every knee shall bow” and every tongue confess Jesus Christ. This is ironic given its own logical derivations and speculations:Īs for ourselves, if the Gentile philosophy, which deals methodically with all these points, were really adequate for a demonstration, it would certainly be superfluous to add a discussion on the soul to those speculations. The work styles itself as highly Biblicist and critical of Hellenistic syllogistic philosophy. However, is this the only way to read the work? Let’s take a look. Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and Resurrection is perhaps his most strongly argued universalist work.
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