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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.6.6–I.41.6.7
Ancient Greek
p. 8546.6
Παρέπονται δὲ τῇ ψυχῇ οὐκ ἀθρόως παραγιγνόμεναι, ἀλλά τινὲς μὲν αὐτῶν ἅμα τῷ γίνεσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐνεργοῦσιν, ὁμοῦ τῇ ψυχῇ περὶ τὸ ἄλογον οὖσαι, αἱ δὲ καθαρώτεραι ἐνέργειαι κατὰ μεταβολὴν τῆς ἡλικίας τῷ λογικῷ μέρει τῆς ψυχῆς συνεργοῦσαι. Αὗται δὲ αἱ ἐνέργειαι τῶν σωμάτων εἰσὶν ἠρτημέναι. Καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν θείων σωμάτων ἔρχονται εἰς τὰ θνητὰ αὗται [αἱ] σωματοποιοῦσαι, ἑκάστη δὲ αὐτῶν ἐνεργεῖ ἢ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἢ τὴν ψυχήν.
6.7
Καὶ αὐτῇ μέντοι τῇ ψυχῇ συγγίγνονται χωρὶς σώματος· ἀεὶ δὲ ἐνέργειαί εἰσιν, οὐκ ἀεὶ δὲ ἡ ψυχὴ ἐν σώματι θνητῷ ἐστι· δύναται γὰρ χωρὶς τοῦ σώματος εἶναι, αἱ δὲ ἐνέργειαι χωρὶς τῶν σωμάτων οὐ δύνανται εἶναι. Ἱερὸς λόγος ἐστίν, ὦ τέκνον, οὗτος. Συνεστάναι μὲν σῶμα χωρὶς ψυχῆς οὐ δύναται, τὸ δὲ εἶναι δύναται.
⟨ΤΑΤ⟩ Πῶς τοῦτο λέγεις, ὦ πάτερ;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8556.6 · Activities and the growing soul
They accompany the soul, but do not arrive all at once. Some act as soon as a human being comes to be, being present with the soul in its irrational part; the purer activities cooperate with the soul’s rational part as age advances. These activities are attached to bodies. From divine bodies they come into mortal ones, [the] activities forming bodies, and each acts upon either the body or the soul.1104
6.7 · Soul and body can part
Yet they also associate with the soul itself apart from body. Activities always exist, but the soul is not always in a mortal body: it can exist apart from the body, whereas activities cannot exist apart from bodies. This is a sacred teaching, my child. A body cannot be constituted without soul, but it can exist without it.
⟨TAT⟩ What do you mean by that, father?1105
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