{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050778.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050778.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050778.htm","text":"Chapter 22.\u2014Names Do Not Imply Corporeity.\nYou also say, that \u201cnames cease to be given, when form is not distinguished; and that, where there is no designation of persons, there is no giving of names.\u201d Your aim is to prove that Abraham\u2019s soul was corporeal, inasmuch as he could be addressed as \u201cFather Abraham.\u201d Now, we have already said, that there is form even where there is no body. If, however, you think that where there are not bodies there is no assigning of names, I must beg of you to count the names which occur in this passage of Scripture, \u201cBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,\u201d 2488 and tell me whether you do not recognise the very things of which these are the names; or whether you recognise them so as to descry some outlines of bodies. Come, tell me, to mention only love, for instance, what are its members, its figure, its colour? For if you are not yourself empty-headed, these appurtenances cannot possibly be regarded by you as an empty thing. Then you go on to say: \u201cThe look and form must, of course, be corporeal of him whose help is implored.\u201d Well, let men hear what you say; and let no one implore God\u2019s help, because no one can possibly see anything corporeal in Him.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}