Here I, although I was greatly terrified not so much by fear of death as by the treachery of my own kinsman, nevertheless I asked if he himself and my father Paulus and others whom we now deem to be dead were actually alive!
"No, quite the opposite," he said, "they all live, they who—as if from a prison cell—have flown away from the bonds of the body. That which you call living is truly death. Why don't you look at the coming of your father Paulus?"
As I saw my father, I truly poured out a flood of tears; however, hugging and kissing me, he forbade me to cry anymore.
Hic ego, etsi eram perterritus non tam mortis metu quam insidiarum a meis, quaesivi tamen viveretne ipse et Paulus pater, et alii quos nos exstinctos esse arbitraremur.
"Immo vero" inquit "hi vivunt, qui e corporum vinclis tamquam e carcere evolaverunt. Vestra vero quae dicitur vita, mors est. Quin tu aspicis ad te venientem Paulum patrem?"
Quem ut vidi, equidem vim lacrimarum profudi; ille autem me complexus atque osculans flere prohibebat,
Here I, although I was greatly terrified not so much by fear of death as by the treachery of my own kinsman, nevertheless I asked if he himself and my father Paulus and others whom we now deem to be dead were actually alive!
"No, quite the opposite," he said, "they all live, they who—as if from a prison cell—have flown away from the bonds of the body. That which you call living is truly death. Why don't you look at the coming of your father Paulus?"
As I saw my father, I truly poured out a flood of tears; however, hugging and kissing me, he forbade me to cry anymore.
Hic ego, etsi eram perterritus non tam mortis metu quam insidiarum a meis, quaesivi tamen viveretne ipse et Paulus pater, et alii quos nos exstinctos esse arbitraremur.
"Immo vero" inquit "hi vivunt, qui e corporum vinclis tamquam e carcere evolaverunt. Vestra vero quae dicitur vita, mors est. Quin tu aspicis ad te venientem Paulum patrem?"
Quem ut vidi, equidem vim lacrimarum profudi; ille autem me complexus atque osculans flere prohibebat,