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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.65.11–I.49.65.13
Ancient Greek
p. 151465.11
Οἱ δὲ οὐ πείθονται τοῖς ἀρχαιοτέροις ταῦτα προστησαμένοις αὐτῆς τὰ ὄντως συμφέροντα, λύσιν δὲ ἀπὸ σώματος καὶ ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν καταδέσμων καὶ φθορᾶς ἐλευθέρωσιν καὶ γενέσεως ἄφεσιν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα σμικρὰ τέλη προΐστανται αὐτῆς, ὡς τὰ προέχοντα τῶν ὅλων, ἐν οἷς εἰσιν οἱ πολλοὶ Πλατωνικοὶ καὶ Πυθαγόρειοι, ἄλλοι κατ᾽ ἄλλας αἱρέσεις διεστηκότες.
65.12
Ἔτι δὲ τὰ πέρατα τῶν τριῶν τούτων διελώμεθα, μέχρι πόσου δή τινος ἀποτελευτᾷ αὐτῶν ἕκαστον. Κρίνονται μὲν δὴ μέχρι τοῦδε αἱ ψυχαί, μέχρις ὅσου συντάττονται εἰς τὴν γένεσιν καὶ τοῦ παντὸς οὐκ ἀφίστανται καὶ συμμίγνυνταί πως πρὸς τὰ διαφέροντα·
65.13
Αἱ δὲ ἀφειμέναι ἀπόλυτοι καὶ ἀμιγεῖς καὶ ἀδέσποτοι παντελῶς καὶ αὐταὶ ἑαυτῶν οὖσαι καὶ πεπληρωμέναι τῶν θεῶν ὁμοῦ καὶ τῆς κρίσεως παντάπασιν ἀπελύθησαν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 151565.11 · Purification understood as release
Others do not accept the more ancient thinkers who set these forth as purification’s truly beneficial results. Instead, they place before it such lesser ends as release from the body, escape from bonds, liberation from decay, and discharge from coming-to-be, as though these surpassed the more comprehensive ends. Among them are most Platonists and Pythagoreans, divided among different positions.1818
65.12 · The limits of judgment
Let us further distinguish the limits of these three processes, determining how far each extends. Souls are subject to judgment up to this point: so long as they are assigned to coming-to-be, have not withdrawn from the universe, and remain in some way mixed with things different from themselves.1819
65.13 · Souls released from judgment
But souls that have been set free, unbound and unmixed, wholly subject to no master, belonging to themselves and filled with the gods, have at the same time been entirely released from judgment.1820
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