A Council held in the city of Alexandria .

On this day of the year 243 A .D ., a holy synod convened in the city of Alexandria in the secondyear of the Papacy of St . Dionysius, the fourteenth Pope of Alexandria . This council wasconvened because certain people in the Arabian countries believed that the spirit dies with thebody, and that on the day of the resurrection, it shall be raised up with it . They composed articleson this belief and sent them to certain people in Alexandria .When this reached Abba Dionysius he was exceedingly sorry, and he tried to return them fromtheir erroneous opinion, but they would not hearken to him . Therefore, the council assembled,confronted them, and made manifest their perversion . They neither repented nor turned awayfrom their false belief, the holy synod and the Pope excommunicated them .He wrote an article for them and said in it, "The love of God for mankind is exceedingly great,and the spirit neither dies nor perishes, but abideth as the angels and the devil for it is spiritual,immutable, and incorruptible . When the spirit goes forth from the body it will return to God Whogave it . (Ecc . 12:7) Where it remains in the places of waiting according to its deservedness . Andon the day of the resurrection, when the trumpet sounds, the dead bodies shall rise by the Word ofGod . The spirits reunite with the body it belongs, some to everlasting joy, and some to everlastingcontempt ." (Daniel 12:2)