Sentences with apocatastasis
ap·o·ca·tas·ta·sis
A a - The Egyptians were the first assertors of the soul's immortality, and of its transmigration, after the death and corruption of this body, into the bodies of other animals successively, viz. until it have run round through the whole circuit of terrestrial, marine, and volatile animals, after which, they say, it is to return again into a human body; they supposing this revolution or apocatastasis of souls to be made in no less space than that of three thousand years. No doctrine. . . contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. We read of Apocatastasis or urine. . . of tumours, and other diseases. The accurate apocatastasis (i. e. regression to the same sign) of the moon, and in a similar manner of the sun.