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readoldthings) wrote2020-12-06 08:00 pm
readoldthings) wrote2020-12-06 08:00 pm
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Daily Advice 12.6.20
Joannes Stobaeus reminds us that
When we lose a friend or a family member to death, we mourn, as we should. But our sorrow is really for ourselves, who are temporarily deprived of their company, rather than for them, who are released from the tomb of the body.
The ancient theologists and priests testify that the soul is conjoined to the body through a certain punishment, and, that it is buried in this body as in a sepulchre.
When we lose a friend or a family member to death, we mourn, as we should. But our sorrow is really for ourselves, who are temporarily deprived of their company, rather than for them, who are released from the tomb of the body.