The Reason which made the universe out of diverse elements, so that all things might be composed of opposite substances in unity\u2014of void and solid, of animate and inanimate, of comprehensible and incomprehensible, of light and darkness, of life itself and death\u2014has also disposed time into order, by fixing and distinguishing its mode, according to which this first portion of it, which we inhabit from the beginning of the world, flows down by a temporal course to a close; but the portion which succeeds, and to which we look forward continues forever. When, therefore, the boundary and limit, that millennial interspace, has been passed, when even the outward fashion of the world itself\u2014which has been spread like a veil over the eternal economy, equally a thing of time\u2014passes away, then the whole human race shall be raised again, to have its dues meted out according as it has merited in the period of good or evil, and thereafter to have these paid out through the immeasurable ages of eternity. Therefore after this there is neither death nor repeated resurrections, but we shall be the same that we are now, and still unchanged\u2014the servants of God, ever with God, clothed upon with the proper substance of eternity; but the profane, and all who are not true worshippers of God, in like manner shall be consigned to the punishment of everlasting fire\u2014that fire which, from its very nature indeed, directly ministers to their incorruptibility.<\/p>\n
— Apology ch. XLVIII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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