The Error in Arabia

At the time we are speaking of, others again sprang up in Arabia who brought in a doctrine foreign to the truth. They said that for the present the human soul dies with the body at death and decays with it, but will come back to life with it at the time of the resurrection. On this occasion too a synod of no small size was gathered. Origen was called in again, there as well, opened the question in public discussion, and was so persuasive that the minds of those who had gone astray were changed. [a]