On the Soul and the Resurrection. Gregory of Nyssa

body. So body and soul are born together.

      As to the number of souls, Humanity itself is a thought of God not yet completed, as these continual additions prove. When it is completed, this “progress of Humanity” will cease, by there being no more births: and no births, no deaths.

      Before answering objections to the Scriptural doctrine of the Resurrection, the passages that contain it are mentioned: especially Psalm cxviii. 27 (LXX.).

      The various objections to it, to the Purgatory to follow, and to the Judgment, are then stated; especially that

      A man is not the same being (physically) two days together. Which phase of him, then, is to rise again, be tortured (if need be), and judged?

      They are all answered by a Definition of the Resurrection, i.e. the restoration of man to his original state. In that, there is neither age nor infancy; and the “coats of skins” are laid aside.

      When the process of purification has been completed, the better attributes of the soul appear—imperishability, life, honour, grace, glory, power, and, in short, all that belongs to human nature as the image of Deity.