objects of enjoyment which we have spoken of as eternal and
18 ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. [BOOK I.
Chat. xx.—The resurrection to damnation.
19. Now he whose soul does not die to this world and begin lierc to be conformed to the truth, falls when the body dies into a more terrible death, and shall revive, not to change his earthly for a heavenly habitation, but to endure the penalty of his sin.
Chap. xxi.—Neither body nor soul extinguished at death.
And so faith clings to the assurance, and we must believe that it is so in fact, that neither the human soul nor the human body suffers complete extinction, but that the wicked rise again to endure inconceivable punishment, and the good to receive eternal life.
Chap. xxu.—God p.Ione to be enjoyed.
20. Among all these things, then, those only are the trjie objects of enjoyment which we have spoken of as eternal and unchangeable. The rest are for^use^ that we may be able to arrive at the full enjoyment of the former. We, however, who enjoy and use other tilings are things ourselves. For a great thing truly is man, made after the image and similitude of
God, not as respects the mortal body'tu which he is clothed, but as respects the rational soul by \^cii he is exalted in honour above the beasts . And so it becomes an important question, whether men ought to enjoy, or to use, themselves, or to do both . For we are commanded to love one another : but it is a ([uestion whether man is to be loved by man for his own ^sake, or for the sake of something else. If it is for his own sake, we enjoy liim ; if it is for the sake of something else, we use him. It seems to me, then, that he is to be loved for the sake of something else. For if a tiling is to be loved for its own sake, then in the enjoyment of it consists a happy life, the hope of which at least, if not yet the reality, is our comfort in the present time. But a curse is pionuunccd on liim who places his liope in man.^
21. Neither ought any one to have joy in himself, if you look at the matter clearly, because no oue_ought to love even himself for his own sake, but for the sake of Him who is the true object of enj oyment. For a man is never in so good a
' Jer. xvii. 5.