19.  And learn this also, that the soul, before it came into this world, had committed no sin “The Orphic poets were under the impression that the soul is suffering the punishment of sin, and that the body is an enclosure or prison in which the soul is incarcerated and kept (σώζεται) as the name σῶμα implies, until the penalty is paid.”  Plato, Cratyl. 400.  Clement of Alexandria (Strom. III. iii. 17), after referring to this passage of Plato, quotes Philolaus the Pythagorean, as saying:  “The ancient theologians and soothsayers also testify that the soul has been chained to the body for a kind of punishment, and is buried in it as in a tomb.“, but having come in sinless, we now sin of our free-will.  Listen not, I pray thee, to any one perversely interpreting the words, But if I do that which I would not Rom. vii. 16.:  but remember Him who saith, If ye be willing, and hearken unto Me, ye shall eat the good things of the land:  but if ye be not willing, neither hearken unto Me, the sword shall devour you, &c. Is. i. 19, 20.:  and again, As ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification Rom. vi. 19..  Remember also the Scripture, which saith, Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge Rom. i. 28.:  and, That which may be known of God is manifestin them Rom. i. 19.; and again, their eyes they have closed Matt. xiii. 15..  Also remember how God again accuseth them, and saith, Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, wholly true:  how art thou turned to bitterness, thou the strange vine Jer. ii. 21.?