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CHAP. 11.--WHETHER ONE CAN BOTH BE LIVING AND DEAD AT THE
SAME TIME.
But if it is absurd to say that a man is in death before he
reaches death (for to what is his course running as he
passes through life, if already he is in death?), and if it
outrage common usage to speak of a man being at once alive
and dead, as much as it does so to speak of him as at once
asleep and awake, it remains to be asked
when a man is dying? For, before death comes, he is not
dying but living; and when death has come
SAME TIME.
But if it is absurd to say that a man is in death before he
reaches death (for to what is his course running as he
passes through life, if already he is in death?), and if it
outrage common usage to speak of a man being at once alive
and dead, as much as it does so to speak of him as at once
asleep and awake, it remains to be asked
when a man is dying? For, before death comes, he is not
dying but living; and when death has come