VIII. The Peruvians: immortality, eternal life and damnation (Acosta); ignorance of bodily resurrection; funerary slaves (Benzoni)
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VIII.THE PERUVIANS believe the immortality of the soul and eternal life and death.Joseph Acosta, book 5, chapter 7: The Indians who dwell in Peru, he says, hold that the souls of men are immortal, and that eternal life awaits the pious, but eternal damnation the impious.And therefore they can easily be led to take up the faith of this article.But that bodies would one day rise again together with the souls themselves they were wholly ignorant.And from this he writes that it came about that, anxious about the other life, they slaughtered slaves at the funerals of their own, to minister there.Compare Girolamo Benzoni, History of the New World book 3, chapter 20.
Latin
VIII. PERUANI animae immortalitatem & vitam, mortemque aeternam credunt. Josephus Acosta lib. 5. cap. 7. Indi, inquit, qui in Peru habitant, statuunt animas hominum immortales esse, ac pios vitam aeternam, impios autem aeternam damnationem manere. Ideoque ad hujus articuli fidem suscipiendam adduci facile possunt. Corpora vero una cum ipsis animabus aliquando resurrectura esse, omnino ignorabant. Atque hinc scribit factum esse, ut de altera vita soliciti mancipia in exequiis suorum mactarent, quae ibi ministrarent. Confer Hieronymum Benzonem historiae novi orbis lib. 3. cap. 20.