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PETRUS. Quodam fratre moriente praesentem me fuisse contigit. Qui repente dum loqueretur, vitalem emisit flatum; et quem prius mecum loquentem videbam, subito extinctum vidi. Sed ejus anima utrum egressa sit, an non, non vidi; et valde durum videtur ut credatur res esse, quam nullus valeat videre. GREG R. Quid mirum, Petre, si egredientem animam non vidisti, quam et manentem in corpore non vides? Nunquidnam modo cum mecum loqueris quia videre in me non vales animam meam, idcirco me esse exanitnem credis ? Natura quippe animæ invisibilis est, atque ita ex corpore invisibiliter egreditur,sicut in corpore invisibiliter manet.
PETER. It befell me to be present when a certain brother was dying. As he was suddenly speaking, he breathed forth the breath of life; and him whom I had just before seen speaking with me, I saw of a sudden extinguished. But whether his soul departed or not, I did not see; and it seems very hard to believe a thing to be real which no one is able to see. GREGORY. What wonder, Peter, if you did not see the soul departing, which even while remaining in the body you do not see? Now while you speak with me, because you are unable to see my soul in me, do you therefore believe me to be lifeless? For the nature of the soul is invisible, and thus it departs from the body invisibly, just as it remains in the body invisibly.
彼得說：有一次某位弟兄臨終，我恰好在場。他正說著話，忽然吐出了生命之氣；我先前才看見他與我說話，轉眼間就見他氣絕了。但他的靈魂是否離去，我卻沒有看見；要人相信一件無人能看見的事是真實的，似乎極其困難。貴格利說：彼得啊，你既看不見靈魂離去，這有甚麼稀奇呢？就連它還留在身體裡的時候，你也看不見它啊。如今你與我說話，你既不能在我身上看見我的靈魂，難道你就因此認為我是無生命的嗎？靈魂的本性原是不可見的，它離開身體是不可見的，正如它留在身體裡也是不可見的。