{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050693.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050693.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050693.htm","text":"Chapter 21.\u2014The Second Passage Quoted by Victor.\nOn the same principle we treat the passage in which God says: \u201cFor my Spirit shall go forth from me; and I have created every breath.\u201d 2369 Here the former clause, \u201cMy Spirit shall go forth from me, must be taken as referring to the Holy Ghost, of whom the Saviour similarly says, \u201cHe proceedeth from the Father.\u201d 2370 But the other clause, \u201cI have created every breath,\u201d is undeniably spoken of each individual soul. Well; but God also creates the entire body of man; and, as nobody doubts, He makes the human body by the process of propagation: it is therefore, of course, still open to inquiry concerning the soul (since it is evidently God\u2019s work), whether He creates it as He does the body; by propagation, or by inbreathing, as He made the first soul.\nIsa. lvii. 16. In the Septuagint it is, \u03a0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u2019 \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f10\u03be\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03bd\u03bf\u1f74\u03bd \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u1f10\u03b3\u1f7c \u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03c3\u03b1.\n324:2370","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}