Scripture leads further than reason; the immortal soul reunited; article of faith in the Creed
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For Sacred Scripture leads us further than where the light of reason can.For it teaches that this immortal soul will sometime again be joined to its body, and that the body itself also will be partaker of immortality: which is nothing other than the resurrection of the flesh, or of that very body from which the soul formerly departed, which has been consumed by worms, or reduced to ashes, or corrupted by any other chance and mode —which we Christians profess to believe as an article of our faith in the Apostles' Creed and in the other catholic symbols.
Latin
Sacra scriptura enim nos ducit longius eo quo lumen rationis non potest. Docet enim hanc immortalem animam suo iterum corpori aliquando junctum iri, & ipsum quoque corpus immortalitatis fore particeps: quod nihil aliud est, quam resurrectio carnis sive illius ipsius corporis, a quo olim anima abscessit, quod a vermibus consumtum, vel in cineres redactum, vel quovis alio casu & modo corruptum fuit: quam tanquam articulum fidei nostrae in Apostolico aliisque catholicis symbolis credere nos Christiani profitemur.