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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Apologetic… (1885)

Chapter VII.—The Soul’s Corporeality Demonstrated Out of the Gospels.
So far as the philosophers are concerned, we have said enough. As for our own teachers, indeed, our reference to them is ex abundanti—a surplusage of authority: in the Gospel itself they will be found to have the clearest evidence for the corporeal nature of the soul. In hell the soul of a certain man is in torment, punished in flames, suffering excruciating thirst, and imploring from the finger of a happier soul, for his tongue, the solace of a drop of water.
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Apologetic… (1885)

Therefore, whatever amount of punishment or refreshment the soul tastes in Hades, in its prison or lodging, [3] in the fire or in Abraham’s bosom, it gives proof thereby of its own corporeality. For an incorporeal thing suffers nothing, not having that which makes it capable of suffering; else, if it has such capacity, it must be a bodily substance. For in as far as every corporeal thing is capable of suffering, in so far is that which is capable of suffering also corporeal. [4]
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