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light, steady, and continuing eternally, entirely and in every part immutable ..."-Ibid. p. 448.
"For having become wholly spiritual, and having in the spiritual church gone to what is of kindred nature, it abides in the rest of God."--Ibid. p. 455.
• " Knowing that. Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him."-Romans vi. 9.
"... in which there is neither sleep, nor pain, nor corruption, nor care, nor night, nor day measured by time . .. eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."-(Hippolytus) A.N.C.L. vol. ix. pp. 2 & 50.
“For the incorruptable nature is not the subject of generation; it grows not, sleeps not, hungers not, thirsts not, is not wearied, suffereth not, dies not, 18 not pierced by nails and spears, sweats not, drops not with blood. Of such kind are the natures of the angels and of souls released from the body. For these are of an. other kind, and different from these creatures of our world, which are visible and perishing."-Ibid. p. 88.
"... No longer having the qualities of fleshly weakness and ... pollutions."-Orgen's Philocalia, pp. 112-113.
The Jaina view is that those who have entered Nirvana are the most excellent of living beings and are termed Gods. There is nothing superior to them in the world of life; they are rid of all pain and misery. implied in embodied existence. They live at the topmost part of the Universe in perfect tranquillity and peace, endowed with omniscience and a bliss that knows no deterioration or decay.
"If eternal salvation were to be sold, for how much, o men, would you propose to purchase it? Were one to estimate the value of the whole of Pactolus, the fabulous river of gold, he would not have reckoned up a price equivalent to salvation. Do not, however, faint. You may, if you choose, purchase salvation, though of inestimable value, with your own resources, love and living faith, which will be teckoned & suitable price."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 82.
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