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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt:... form any part of Justin's plan to enter into minute details respecting the government or discipline of the Church. Tertullian, who in his other works frequently mentions Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in his Apology, addressed to the governors of Proc0nsular Africa, uses language even more general than that of J ustin. In one respect the President appears to have been regarded as occupying the place of an Apostle: for as the 1early converts, who sold their lands and possessions, laid the price at the feet of the Apostles; so, according to Justin, whatever was collected for the use of the poor, at the meetings on the Lord's Day, was deposited in the hands' of the President. CHAPTER V. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUI: ---THE RESURRECTION OF' THE BODY--'THE MILLENNIUM'----FUTURE JUDGMENT--ANGELS--DEMONS. IN the Introduction 1to the Dialogue with Trypho, the old man, by whose discourse Justin was converted to Christianity, enters into a discussion respecting the soul. Having stated that the heathen Philosophers could not tell what the soul is, he proceeds to afiirm that the soul is not immortal; "for if immortal, it must also be necessarily'existent, as some of the followers of Plato asserted, and as others erroneously asserted the world to be. Yet though not immortal, all souls do not die; for that would be a benefit to the bad; but the souls of the good exist in a happier, and those of the bad in a worse state, awaiting the day of judgment; when those which appear worthy of God will be exempt from death, and the rest be punished so long as God wills them to exist and to be punished. God alone is necessarily'existent and incorruptible, and on that very account is God; all other things, including the soul, are...