Whether a man at the houre of his death may be said to be amongst the dead or the dying. CHAP. 9.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 now for the time of the soules separation from the body (bee it good or 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ whether wee say it is in death, or after it? if it bee after death, it is not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…en being past and gone, but rather the present life of the soule, good or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the death was euill to them whilest it was death, that is, whilest they, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ffered it, because it was a grieuous passion (though the good vse this 〈◊〉〈◊〉): How then can death being past, be either good or bad? Againe if we 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ell, we shall find that that grieuous passion in man is not death. For (a) as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we feele, we liue: & as long as we liue, we are before death, & not in it: for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ath comes, it taketh away all sence, yea euen that which is greeued by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…pproach. And therefore how we may call those that are not dead, but in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ges of deadly affliction, dying, is hard to explaine, though they may bee 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ordinarily so: for when death is come, they are no more in dying, but in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or, death. Therefore is none dying but the liuing: because when one is in * 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…atest extreamity, or (b) passage, as we say' if his soule be not gone, hee is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 aliue then. Thus is hee both liuing and dying: going to death and from life, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 liuing as long as the soule is in the body: and not yet in death, because the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is vndeparted. And when it is departed, then he is not in death, but rather 〈◊〉〈◊〉 death: who then can say who is in death? no man dying is, if no man can be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ng and dying at once: for as long as the soule is in the body we cannot 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…at he liues. (c) But if it be said that he is dying who is drawing towards 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and yet that the dying and the liuing cannot be both in one at once, then know not I who is liuing.
L. VIVES.
〈◊〉〈◊〉) long] But death is a temporally effected separation of soule and body, and as soone 〈◊〉〈◊〉 members begin to grow cold, hee beginnes to dye, the departure of the soule is * 1.2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ance of death, the one is no sooner gone but the other is there. (b) Passage] Mart. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…d agas. A•…•…le agas animam. Ago to do, agere animam, to die: because the ancient 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the soule was but a breath: and so beeing breathed out, death followed.