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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
A treatise on the soul

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1 1 | wisdom, before the very breath of which the whole host 2 3 | breathed on man's face the breath of life, so that man became 3 4 | the soul originates in the breath of God, it follows that 4 5 | spiritual essence (inasmuch as breath and spirit are in their 5 9 | material nature it is wind and breath, (or spirit); whence it 6 9 | upon the face of man the breath of life, and man had consequently 7 9 | living soul, surely that breath must have passed through 8 10| proof that the spirit or breath is an adjunct of the human 9 10| that some creatures lack breath, and that they lack it because 10 10| a thing to live without breath; then why not suppose that 11 10| suppose it means to emit breath from yourself. What is it 12 10| suppose it means not to emit breath from yourself. This is the 13 10| separate the spirit (or breath) and the soul, separate 14 11| call the soul spirit or breath, because to breathe is ascribed 15 11| propriety of its action, breath. Moreover, we properly and 16 11| especially insist on calling it breath (or spirit), in opposition 17 11| of from the afflatus or breath of God. He, to be sure, 18 11| with this view converts breath into spirit, because he 19 11| than from the Spirit or breath of God. For this reason, 20 11| maintain the soul to be breath and not the spirit, in the 21 11| breathed on man's face the breath of life, and that man became 22 11| from me, and I made the breath of each. And the breath 23 11| breath of each. And the breath of my Spirit became soul." 24 11| And again: "He giveth breath unto the people that are 25 11| soul, that is to say, the breath, to the people that are 26 16| forth by His own afflatus or breath? The irrational element, 27 19| likewise, but because it is the breath of God, which this (human 28 22| define to be sprung from the breath of God, immortal, possessing 29 24| attenuated felicity, as the breath (of God), though not His 30 25| new-born infant first draws breath, and by and by exhaled with 31 25| exhaled with the man's latest breath. We shall see whether this 32 25| so greatly need, when a breath of cold air might endanger 33 25| before,) from the first breath of the new-born child. Pray, 34 26| Platonic style, at his first breath; or else, after the Stoic 35 26| and breathed into him the breath of life." Nor could God 36 27| generating fluid? From the breath of God first came the soul. 37 27| soul. But what else is the breath of God than the vapour of 38 27| substances, the clay and the breath, combined at the first creation 39 28| he recovered some slight breath of report which survived 40 51| office, at the very first breath of his prayer she withdrew


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