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Theodotus

Section 11

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Author: Theodotus

XI. The ancients were exceedingly distressed, unless they had always

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some

suffering

in

the

body

.

For

they

were

afraid

,

that

if

they

received

not

in

this

world

the

punishment

of

the

sins

which

,

in

numbers

through

ignorance

,

accompany

those

that

are

in

the

flesh

,

they

would

in

the

other

world

suffer

the

penalty

all

at

once

.

So

that

they

preferred

curative

treatment

here

.

What

is

to

be

dreaded

is

,

then

,

not

external

disease

,

but

sins

,

for

which

disease

comes

,

and

disease

of

the

soul

,

not

of

the

body

:

“

For

all

flesh

is

grass

,

”

and

corporeal

and

external

good

things

are

temporary

;

“

but

the

things

which

are

unseen

are

eternal

.

”

Notes

23
Isa. xl. 6.
24
2 Cor. iv. 18.