Who has found out her place? or who has come into her treasures?
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Methodius of Olympus
AD 311
As soon as souls have left this world, it is said that the angels meet them with much rejoicing and conduct them to those very pastures to which they were longing to come, imagining them from far away when, still dwelling in their bodies, they dreamed of the divine world. When, therefore, they have come there, they see wonderful and glorious and blessed things of beauty, and such as cannot be spoken to humanity. They see there righteousness, prudence, love, truth, temperance and other flowers and plants of wisdom, equally splendid. We see here only the shadows and apparitions of them, as in dreams, and think that they consist of human actions because there is no clear image of them here but only dim copies that themselves we often see when making dark copies of them. No one, in fact has been able to contemplate with his own eyes the greatness, the magnificence and the beauty of the justice, the intelligence or the peace. But there, in him whose name is I - "am, they are seen perfect an...
Obviously, in the Lord, “the one who believes in me, will never die.” In fact, the Lord says, “I am the light of the world.” And the apostle, “He indeed is our peace.” - "Fragments On Baruch 3.14"
