![]() ![]() Gregory of Nyssa means the reality of life that should be continued after death. The human composition is restored not in its present but its original state. Nevertheless, resurrection is not just the return or reproduction of the present existence. Gregory compares the process of such a recovery with seed germination and the development of the human embryo itself. It is the appearance of the body, its internal image, or type. However, on the day of resurrection, every soul is recognized. Roth (1993) cites the 103rd Psalm: “You will take away their spirit, and they will die and return to their dust” (p. Moreover, in the disintegration itself, the particles of the former body retain certain signs or traces of their former belonging to this or that soul. The body deprived of vital force descends and is involved in the general circulation of matter. ![]() Gregory of Nyssa considers the empirical unity or contact of soul and body, and its disintegration is regarded as death (Roth, 1993). ![]()
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