Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 33:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 434, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 5035 (In-Text, Margin)

... downwards, what, are we to think, was the origin of their souls? Did they come by propagation, like brute beasts? So that, as body springs from body, so soul from soul. Or is it the case that rational creatures, longing for bodily existence, sink by degrees to earth, and at last are tied even to human bodies? Surely (as the Church teaches in accordance with the Saviour’s words, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work”; and the passage in Isaiah, “Who maketh the spirit of man in him”; and in the Psalms,[Psalms 33:15] “Who fashioneth one by one the hearts of them”) God is daily making souls—He, with whom to will is to do, and who never ceases to be a Creator. I know what you are accustomed to say in opposition to this, and how you confront us with adultery and ...