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A Treatise on the soul and its origin

Chapter 22 [XV.]--A Summary Recapitulation of the Errors of Victor.

What these particular errors are, I have, to the best of my ability, already explained. But I will run over them again with a brief recapitulation. One is, "That God did not make the soul out of nothing, but out of His own self." A second is, that "just as God who gives is Himself ever existent, so is He ever giving souls through infinite time." The third is, that "the soul lost some merit by the flesh, which it had had previous to the flesh." The fourth is, that "the soul by means of the flesh recovers its ancient condition, and is born again through the very same flesh by which it had deserved to be polluted." The fifth is, that "the soul deserved to be sinful, previous to any sin." The sixth is, that "infants which are forestalled by death before they are baptized, may yet attain to forgiveness of their original sins." The seventh is, that "they whom the Lord has predestinated to be baptized may be taken away from his predestination, or die before that has been accomplished in them which the Almighty has predestined." The eighth is, that "it is of infants who are fore-stalled by death, before they are born again in Christ, that the Scripture says, Speedily was he taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding,'" with the remainder of the passage to the same effect in the Book of Wisdom. The ninth is, that "there are outside the kingdom of God some of those mansions which the Lord said were in His Father's house." The tenth is, that "the sacrifice of Christians ought to be offered in behalf of those who have departed out of the body without being baptized." The eleventh is, that "some of those persons who have departed this life without the baptism of Christ do not in the meanwhile go into the kingdom, but into paradise; afterwards, however, in the resurrection of the dead, they attain even to the blessedness of the kingdom of heaven."

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De l'âme et de son origine

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Je vous ai déjà, comme je l'ai pu, signalé ces erreurs, mais je crois devoir vous les signaler encore brièvement, telles que vous les avez formulées : 1° Dieu a tiré l'âme, non pas du néant, mais de lui-même; 2° Dieu crée éternellement les âmes, comme il est éternel lui. même; 3° l'âme a perdu par la chair le mérite qu'elle avait acquis avant son union avec la chair; 4° l'âme recouvre par la chair son état primitif et renaît par elle, comme c'est parelle qu'elle avait mérité d'être souillée; 5° l'âme a mérité de devenir pécheresse avant tout péché; 6° les enfants morts saris baptême peuvent obtenir la rémission du péché originel; 7° ceux que Dieu a prédestinés au baptême peuvent faillir à cette prédestination et mourir avant d'en obtenir de Dieu la réalisation; 8° aux enfants qui meurent avant d'avoir repris naissance en Jésus-Christ s'appliquent ces paroles : «Il a été enlevé, de crainte que la malice ne changeât son intelligence », et autres paroles semblables tirées du livre de la Sagesse ; 9° parmi les différentes demeures dont le Sauveur nous affirme l'existence dans la maison de son Père, il en est quelques-unes en dehors du royaume de Dieu; 10° le sacrifice des chrétiens doit être offert pour ceux qui meurent avant d'avoir reçu le baptême; 11° quelques-uns de ceux qui meurent sans baptême entrent, non pas dans le royaume des cieux, mais dans le paradis; ce n'est qu'a. près la résurrection des morts que le royaume des cieux leur sera ouvert.