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Before the resurrection the soul still uses a body
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…poor man resting in Abraham's bosom—spoken of before the Savior's coming, before the world's consummation, and so before the resurrection—the one punished in Hades, the other at rest in Abraham's bosom—teach that even now, at departure, the soul uses a body.
From Methodius. Origen, having put it this way…
Greek ἐν κόλποις Ἀβραὰμ πένης ἀναπαυόμενος, πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Σωτῆρος καὶ πρὸ
τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πρὸ τῆς ἀναστάσεως λεγόμενοι ὁ μὲν ἐν
ᾅδου κολάζεσθαι, ὁ δὲ ἐν κόλποις Ἀβραὰμ ἀναπαύεσθαι, διδάσκουσιν ὅτι καὶ νῦν τῇ
ἀπαλλαγῇ σώματι χρῆται ἡ ψυχή. Ἐκ τῶν Μεθοδίου. Φράσας (Ὠριγένης)
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About this text Fragments from Origen on the rising of the dead: Lazarus and the rich man, the soul's bodily form after death, and the risen being like the angels.
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 254) is the author of these fragments on the resurrection. Methodius is the writer who reports the words. This is not Chrysostom's treatise on the resurrection of the dead.
He takes up the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Simpler readers treat both men as still in the body. More careful readers say the scene is not yet the resurrection, because after the rising no one is left living in this age. The rich man speaks of his five brothers.
The fragments then speak of the form the soul has at death, of Samuel seen in a body, and of the saying that those who reach the resurrection will be as the angels, and so without flesh. The citations use the old names of the biblical books.
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