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1 4 | CREATED AND ORIGINATED AT BIRTH.~After settling the origin 2 4 | teach that it had both birth and creation. And when we 3 4 | And when we ascribe both birth and creation to it, we have 4 6 | certain Greek woman who gave birth to a quint of children, 5 11| with a man's soul at his birth, this soul must evidently 6 19| intellect by the fact of his birth, vindicating at one and 7 19| from the very moment of birth (the soul) has to be regarded 8 20| moment of its own origin at birth. Just as Seneca says, whom 9 25| SOUL IS INTRODUCED AFTER BIRTH.~I shall now return to the 10 25| soul into infants after birth from the stroke of the frigid 11 26| him who was anticipated in birth, who was not yet fully brought 12 31| an infant soul at their birth. But how happens it that 13 36| the soul supervene after birth on the flesh predetermine, 14 37| to bring the child to the birth and light of day. We, on 15 37| the period of the soul's birth, that I may omit nothing 16 37| process. A mature and regular birth takes place, as a general 17 37| to consummate our natural birth should correspond to the 18 37| regenerate life. But inasmuch as birth is also completed with the 19 37| sometimes produced in a human birth, shall in its number tally 20 37| conjunction likewise from the birth onwards; in the first place, 21 39| OF THE SOUL FROM THE VERY BIRTH.~All these endowments of 22 39| which are bestowed on it at birth are still obscured and depraved 23 39| the very portal of their birth, at which he is invited 24 39| all men are brought to the birth with idolatry for the midwife, 25 39| the children unclean" by birth: as if he meant us to understand 26 40| then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam 27 41| being renewed in its second birth by water and the power from 28 41| taker up (in its second birth) by the Holy Spirit, just 29 41| Spirit, just as in its first birth it is embraced by the unholy 30 46| that, previous to giving birth to Seleucus, his mother 31 52| inseparable to us from our very birth. If man had been directly