The mystical effect of the God-man's self-sacrifice extends, broadly speaking, to all men, though it is efficacious only for those who submit through faith or are chosen by divine grace; but in the Pauline acceptance it acts as an apocatastasis and extends also to non-human creation in general, which, in its imperfect state, awaits redemption like the merely natural man . " ( Part 3, Chapter 3.3 ).
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Konstantinovsky ( 2009 ) states that the uses of " apocatastasis " in Christian writings prior to the Synod of Constantinople ( 543 ) and the anathemas ( 553 ) pronounced against " Origenists " and Evagrius Ponticus were neutral and referred primarily to concepts similar to the general " restoration of all things spoken " ( " restitutio omnium quae locutus est Deus " ) of Peter in Acts 3 : 21 and not for example the universal reconciliation of all souls which had ever been.
