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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
"Oh! the blessedness of the soul that is redeemed by the word ! Oh! [the blessedness of] the trumpet of peace without wer! Obi [the blessedness of] the teaching which quenches the fire of appetite! which, (though it] makes not poets, nor fits (men) to be philosophers, nor bas samong its votaries] the orators of the crowd ; yet instructs [men], and makes the dead not to die, and lifts man from the earth [as] gods unto the region which is above the firmament. Come, be instructed, and be like me : for I too was Conceas ye are."--(Ambrose) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 104.
"... and the end of knowledge 18 rest—the last thing conceived as the object of aspiration."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. 1v. p. 134.
"... who for the 'oy that was set before him endured the cross." —Hebrews xii. 2.
"And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting jor upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Isaiab xxxv. 10.
" But the fruit of the spirit is ... joy, peace."-Gal. v. 22.
"And exultation is said to be gladness, being a reflection of the virtue which is according to truth through a kind of exhilaration and relaxation of the soul."-A.N.C.L. vol. x11. p 361.
“... For in the trinity alone ... does goodness exist in virtue of essential being, while others possess it as an accidental and perishable quality, and only then enjoy blessedness when they participate in holiness and wisdom and in divinity itself."-A.N.C.L. vol. x. p. 55
"... Laws which ensure happiness to those who live according to them and who do not flatter the demons by means of sacrifices, but altogether despise them. ..."-(Origen) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiii. p. 194.
" These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."John xv. 11.
"But the cause of this 18 not in the things which cannot be at one and the same time deadly and wholesome, sweet and butter; but just as each one has been formed to receive impressions from what is external, Bo he 16 affected : his condition is not caused by the influences of the things, but springs from the nature of his own senges, and connection with the external. But all this is set for from the gods, and separated from them by no small interval."--(Arnobius) A.N.C.L. vol. xix. pp 337-338.