{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But, say they, when the Scripture used the word \"spirit,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_628_628\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_628_628\">[628]</a>\r\nit would not have added \"of life\" unless it meant us to\r\nunderstand the Holy Spirit; nor, when it said, \"Man became\r\na soul,\" would it also have inserted the word \"living\" unless\r\nthat life of the soul were signified which is imparted to it\r\nfrom above by the gift of God. For, seeing that the soul by\r\nitself has a proper life of its own, what need, they ask, was\r\nthere of adding living, save only to show that the life which\r\nis given it by the Holy Spirit was meant? What is this but\r\nto fight strenuously for their own conjectures, while they carelessly\r\nneglect the teaching of Scripture? Without troubling\r\nthemselves much, they might have found in a preceding page\r\nof this very book of Genesis the words, \"Let the earth bring\r\nforth the living soul,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_629_629\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_629_629\">[629]</a> when all the terrestrial animals were\r\ncreated. Then at a slight interval, but still in the same book,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_555\">[Pg 555]</a></span>\r\nwas it impossible for them to notice this verse, \"All in whose\r\nnostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,\r\ndied,\" by which it was signified that all the animals which\r\nlived on the earth had perished in the deluge? If, then, we\r\nfind that Scripture is accustomed to speak both of the \"living\r\nsoul\" and the \"spirit of life\" even in reference to beasts; and\r\nif in this place, where it is said, \"All things which have the\r\nspirit of life,\" the word πνοή, not πνεῦμα, is used; why may\r\nwe not say, What need was there to add \"living,\" since the\r\nsoul cannot exist without being alive? or, What need to add\r\n\"of life\" after the word spirit? But we understand that Scripture\r\nused these expressions in its ordinary style so long as it\r\nspeaks of animals, that is, animated bodies, in which the soul\r\nserves as the residence of sensation; but when man is spoken\r\nof, we forget the ordinary and established usage of Scripture,\r\nwhereby it signifies that man received a rational soul, which\r\nwas not produced out of the waters and the earth like the\r\nother living creatures, but was created by the breath of God.\r\nYet this creation was so ordered that the human soul should\r\nlive in an animal body, like those other animals of which the\r\nScripture said, \"Let the earth produce every living soul,\"\r\nand regarding which it again says that in them is the breath\r\nof life, where the word πνοή and not πνεῦμα is used in the\r\nGreek, and where certainly not the Holy Spirit, but their\r\nspirit, is signified under that name.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-951"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7a3f5f8ad3c38c1d6ed800ee201bec3c8bb6e37bf036378fa1600b557d357b11","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. i. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_629_629","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_629_629","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_629_629\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_629_629\"><span class=\"label\">[629]</span></a> Gen. i. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_629_629","text_sha256":"ffacfdb9cc349b6ce7bc65a6804c585b31f0aaf311af321697e418bd7796dde6","verified":false,"work_id":null}