Book Title: Jainism Christianity and Science
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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________________ 30 JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE "But (you will say) he was cut off by death as men are. Not (Christ) himself; for it is impossible either that death should befall what is divine, or that that should waste away and disappear in death which 18 one (in its substance), and not compounded, nor form. ed by bringing together any parts."—(Arnobius) A.N.C.L. vol. xix. p. 51. 44 Spirit is a substance, subtle, immaterial, and which 18sues forth without form."-(Syriac Documents) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 175. 16 ... יד • What is God? God,' as the Lord saith, is a Spirit.' Now spirit is properly substance, incorporeal, and, uncircumscribed. And that is incorporeal which does not consist of a body, or whose existence 18 not according to breadth, length, and depth. And that is uncircumscribed which has no place, which is wholly in all, and in each entire, and the same in itself."-Ibid. pp. 176-177. Even the souls of the wicked are unperishing:. 61 • or Wherefore arise, and understand your salvation. For God is in need of no one, nor does He require anything, nor 18 He hurt, by anything; but we are either helped or hurt, in that we are grateful ungrateful. For what does God gain from our praises, or what does He lose by our blasphemies? Only (this we must remember), that God brings into proximity and friendship with Himself the soul that renders thanks to Him. But the wicked demon possesses the ungrateful soul."(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. i. pp. 319-320. "But if any persist in impiety till the end of life, then as soon as the soul, which is immortal, departs, it shall pay the penalty of its persistence in impiety. For even the souls of the impious are immortal, though perhaps they themselves would wish them to end with their bodies."-Ibid. p. 320. "All souls are immortal, even those of the wicked, for whom it were better that they were not deathless. For, punished with the endless vengeance of quenchless fire, and not dying, it is impossible for them to have a period put to their misery."-(Syriac Documents) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 163. 44 Being thus single,' simple, and entire in itself, it is as incapable of being composed and put together from external constituents

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