...of Gaza, a Platonic philosopher, and a Christian, who wrote a dialogue, called The Theophrastus, on the Immortality of the Soul, and the Resurrection of the Body; and is said to have written twenty-five epistles, which are still extant, — the exact amount of those...

...altogether throw off his profession of Platonism when he became a Christian. He wrote a Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body ; and in it, after giving various instances of miracles, he proceeds, in the character of Axitheus, to speak...

...wore the mask of religion. The Sadducees rejected the Pharisaical traditions with contempt, denied the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body; and admitted no felicity, but that which may be enjoyed in this life. The rich, the nobility, and most...

...having put the Pharisees and Herodians to silence, next the Sadducees encounter him. This sect denied imon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fev as an objection against both they propound a case to our Saviour, of a woman that had had seven breihren...

...state, what no one will deny, that the Pharisees in our Saviour's days, believed these doctrines of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body ; and hence he draws the strange conclusion, that neither of these doctrines are recorded in the Old Testament...

...example, the dialogue of jEneas of Gaza, a disciple of Hierocles, entitled, " Theophrastus ; or on the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body," and that of Zacharius the Scholastic, entitled, " Ammonius ; or on the construction of the world, against...

...state, to which his prophetic finger hod long pointed! Elijah's departure was a signal proof both of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body ; and as men were falling into the grave, the chariot of fire which removed him threw a strong light over...

...outward obedience merely, hut the obedience of the heart that it requires. 3. Also in what it teaches about the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body. As to the immortality of the soul, there were some interesting aspirations cherished by some of the...

...burden. In some respects, indeed, they held sounder opinions than the Sadducees; as, for example, on the immortality of the soul, and the resurrection of the body, and the existence of angels: and there were, no doubt, men of real piety among them, but these were the...

...of their profession (Matt, xxiii. 27, 28 ; Luke xi. 39, 42), the Sadducees — because He preached the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body; and the Herodians — because, while enjoining obedience to the civil authority in lawful things, He claimed...