PHIL. IUD. ON THE HEIR OF DIVINE THINGS §. 11. 12.

§. 11. Of this life according to sense, which he calls Masek, each of us is a son, honoring and admiring the nurse and foster-mother of the mortal race, sense-perception, which the earthly mind, named Adam, seeing formed, called his own death her life. “For he called,” he says, “Adam the name of his wife Life, because she is the mother of all the living,” original: "Ἐκάλεσε γὰρ," φησὶν, "Ἀδὰμ ὄνομα γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ Ζωὴν, ὅτι αὕτη μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων," (Gen. 3:20) of those who are truly dead to the life of the soul, of course. But the truly living have wisdom as a mother, and sense-perception as a handmaid, created by nature for the service of knowledge. And the name of the one born from life, which we recognized from a kiss, establishes Damascus, which is translated as "blood of a sack"; very powerfully and accurately alluding to the body as a "sack," and to blood as the ensanguined life. Since "soul" is said in two ways: both the whole and its ruling part, which, to speak strictly, is the soul of the soul, just as the eye is both the whole orb and the chief part with which we see; it seemed to the lawgiver that the substance of the soul is also double, blood being that of the whole, and divine spirit that of the most ruling part. He says, therefore, plainly, “The soul of all flesh is blood.” original: "Ψυχὴ πάσης σαρκὸς, αἷμά ἐστιν." (Gen. 9:4) Well done to assign the influx of blood to the crowd of flesh, the appropriate to the appropriate; but he did not hang the substance of the mind from any created thing, but introduced it as breathed in from above by God. “For he breathed,” he says, “the maker of all things into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul,” original: "Ἐνεφύσησε γὰρ," φησὶν, "ὁ ποιητὴς τῶν ὅλων εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πνοὴν ζωῆς, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἄνθρωπος εἰς ψυχὴν ζῶσαν," (Gen. 2:7) which reason also holds to be fashioned according to the image of the maker.

§. 12. So that there is a double genus of men: those living by divine spirit and reason, and those living by blood and the pleasure of the flesh.

) Gen. 3, 20. — ) Gen. 9, 4. — ) Gen. 2, 7.