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Chapter 87.—The Case of Monstrous Births.
We are not justified in affirming
even of monstrosities, which are born and live, however quickly
they may die, that they shall not rise again, nor that they shall
rise again in their deformity, and not rather with an amended and
perfected body. God forbid that the double limbed man who was
lately born in the East, of whom an account was brought by most
trustworthy brethren who had seen him,—an account which the
presbyter Jerome, of blessed memory, left in writing;1267
| 1267 Jerome, in his Epistle to
Vitalis: “Or because in our times a man was born at Lydda
with two heads, four hands, one belly, and two feet, does it
necessarily follow that all men are so born?” | —God
forbid, I say, that we should think that at the resurrection there
shall be one man with double limbs, and not two distinct men, as
would have been the case had twins been born. And so other births,
which, because they have either a superfluity or a defect, or
because they are very much deformed, are called
monstrosities, shall at the resurrection be restored to the
normal shape of man; and so each single soul shall possess its own
body; and no bodies shall cohere together even though they were
born in cohesion, but each separately shall possess all the members
which constitute a complete human body.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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