II. Paradox: some who acknowledge Scripture deny immortality — Sadducees; Arabians; John XXIII
II. But a wonder has occurred: that what by nature's instinct among barbarian nations, and by best reason among the learned (if you except a few), was received without Scripture, that very thing has been denied by some who have acknowledged Scripture. The Sadducees of old taught that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit (that is, immortal) (Acts 23:8). See also Josephus, Antiquities book 18, chapter 2, and Jewish War book 2, chapter 7. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History book 6, chapter 30, reports that certain persons arose in Arabia in the third century who so denied the immortality of souls that they did not meanwhile abolish the resurrection, but affirmed that the soul is also raised again together with the body. Augustine from Eusebius mentions the same in Heresies 83. Then John XXIII, Roman Pontiff, said and stubbornly believed that the soul is extinguished and dies together with the human body, otherwise of brutes, as the words of the Council of Constance, session 11, have it.
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II. Mirum vero accidit, quod naturae instinctu a barbaris gentibus, optima vero ratione a doctis, si paucos excipias, receptum fuit sine scriptura, id ipsum a nonnullis, qui scripturam agnoverunt, negatum esse. Sadducaei olim docebant non esse resurrectionem, neque angelum, neque spiritum (sc. immortalem) Act. 23.v.8. Vide & Josephum lib. 18. antiquitatum cap. 2. & lib. 2. belli Judaici cap. 7. Eusebius lib. 6. historiae cap. 30. refert, quosdam tertio saeculo in Arabia exortos, qui immortalitatem animarum sic negarunt, ut resurrectionem interea non tollerent, sed affirmarent, animam una cum corpore quoque resuscitari. Eorundem ex Eusebio Augustinus meminit haeres. 83. Deinde Johannes XXIII. Romanus Pontifex dixit & pertinaciter credidit, animam extingui & una cum corpore humano mori, aliam brutorum, ut habent verba synodi Constantiensis sess. 11.