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Chapter XVIII.
Tichonius,2601
an African by nationality was, it is
said, sufficiently learned in sacred literature, not wholly
unacquainted with secular literature and zealous in ecclesiastical
affairs. He wrote books On internal war and Expositions of
various causes in which for the defence of his friends, he cites
the ancient councils and from all of which2602
| 2602 from all of which A 25 30 31 a;
from which e T Her. |
he is recognized to have been a Donatist. He composed also eight
Rules for investigating and ascertaining the meaning of the
Scriptures, compressing them into one volume. He also expounded the
Apocalypse of John entire, regarding nothing in it in a carnal sense,
but all in a spiritual sense. In this exposition he maintained the
angelical nature2603
| 2603 angelical nature etc., “that the
human body is an abode of angels” (angelicam stationem corpus
esse) Phillott, in Smith and Wace. | to be corporeal,
moreover he doubts that there will be a reign of the righteous on earth
for a thousand years after the resurrection, or that there will be two
resurrections of the dead in the flesh, one of the righteous and the
other of the unrighteous, but maintains that there will be one
simultaneous resurrection of all, at which shall arise even the aborted
and the deformed lest any living human being, however deformed, should
be lost. He makes such distinction to be sure, between the two
resurrections as to make the first, which he calls the apocalypse of
the righteous, only to take place in the growth of the church where,
justified by faith, they are raised from the dead bodies of their sins
through baptism to the service of eternal life, but the second, the
general resurrection of all men in the flesh. This man flourished at
the same period with the above mentioned Rufinus during the reign of
Theodosius and his sons.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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