[239] I Cor. xv. 44.
[240] I Thess. v. 23.
[241] See Chapter IX., "The Trinity."
[242] See Ante, pp. 84, 99, 100.
[243] 2 Cor. xii. 2, 4.
[244] S. Matt. v. 48.
[245] S. John xvii. 22, 23.
[246] 2 Cor. v. 1.
[247] 1 Cor. xv. 28.
[248] This mistranslation was a very natural one, as the translation was made in the seventeenth century, and all idea of the pre-existence of the soul and of its evolution had long faded out of Christendom, save in the teachings of a few sects regarded as heretical and persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.