System of Sacred Theology · §2.3.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Stoics on the soul's duration; Cleanthes and Chrysippus; Pliny impiously mocks immortality

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The same Stoics, according to Diogenes Laertius book 6 on Zeno, hold the soul to be generated twice.at all remain until the conflagration; but Chrysippus only those of the wise. Pliny, a philosopher not of better mark, in Natural History book 7, chapter 33, impiously mocks the sentence on the immortality of souls: Those, he says, are inventions of childish deliriums and of a greed never to cease from mortality.

Latin

Iidem apud Diogenem Laertium lib. 6. in Zenone, animam bis cum genitam. Cleanthes omnes permanere statuit usque ad conflagrationem: Chrysippus vero solas sapientum. Plinius non probioris notae philosophus lib. 7. c. 33. sententiam de immortalitate animarum impie ridet: Puerilium, inquiens, ista deliramentorum avidaeque nunquam desinere mortalitatis commenta sunt.

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Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

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