This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ... ft B STO ir but I doubt of its being a universal doctrine of Pagan theologians, because I do not find it asserted in the Aeneid. It would certainly be implied there, if any of its verses unequivocally limited the duration of Elysium to a thousand years: for then there must have been some eternal Paradise to counter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ... ft B STO ir but I doubt of its being a universal doctrine of Pagan theologians, because I do not find it asserted in the Aeneid. It would certainly be implied there, if any of its verses unequivocally limited the duration of Elysium to a thousand years: for then there must have been some eternal Paradise to counter-poise that eternal Tartarus; some final bome for the aural simplicis ignem as soon as its earthly stains were purged away, whether by punishments in the world of shades, or by returning to this one, in order to redeem the errors of its former life by living better. But to punish it when become stainless by sending it back to where its stains had been contracted, and exile it then from that blissful Elysium into this wretched existence, would be uqjust and contradictory. The Pagan belief therefore as to Paradise, would not be soremote from our own, if it could be positively ascertained that it was an article of the Pagan faith that Elysium was not eternal. But to me that is not clear; and even the following passage may be construed without any such admission: Quisque suns patimur manes: exinde per amplum Mittimur Elysium et panel Ispta arva tecjemns; Donee longa dies, perfecto temporis prbe, Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit Ethereuni sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem. Has omnes, ubi inille rotam volvere per annus, Laetheum ad (lumen Deus evoc.it (-). (t) Ai-niui. Lib. vi. v.-tl, into It. There is something dubious in the syntax, as well as in the sentiment; for donee may refer either to jMiici, or to tenemus;and has omnes allude either to the inhabitants of Elysium, or to those of the adjacent purgatorial hell. But two things are evident: Firstly, lhat Virgil, contrary to his practise, is obscure here, and secondly, that there is no..
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