Page again: “For those who oped to rise in the flesh for the Millennium and then the general judgement, ritual singing was a way to celebrate the continuity of bodily existence on both sides of the grade. The voice was one of the higher faculties of the body that Tertullian and others believed would survive in the blessed state where the lower would no longer be required . . . . It was an orthodox view opposed to most forms of Gnosticism, where the soul’s enclosure within a muddy garb of flesh was apt to be regarded as a disastrous accident.”
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