Neither can the soul, which is one thing, be corrupted by the body, which is another, unless she herself is infected.

And as no bodily evil can infect the soul, neither can any bodily evil, whether disease or violence, or any other destroy the soul, unless it can be shown to render her unholy and unjust.

But no one will ever prove that the souls of men become more unjust when they die.

If a person has the audacity to say the contrary, the answer is--Then why do criminals require the hand of the executioner, and not die of themselves?
'Truly,' he said, 'injustice would not be very terrible if it brought a cessation of evil; but I rather believe that the injustice which murders others may tend to quicken and stimulate the life of the unjust.' You are quite right.

If sin which is her own natural and inherent evil cannot destroy the soul, hardly will anything else destroy her.