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Lactantius Firmianus, Book 2, Chapter 13 of the Divine Institutes, says: Since therefore he had first fashioned the male to his own likeness, he also configured the female to the image of man himself, so that by mixed sex they could propagate offspring, and from all [parts of the] earth...

Gen. 1.

Gen. 9.

Ps. 8.

Wis. 2.

Nazianzenus

Philosopher

No part of Philosophy is more beautiful to know, and exists more worthy of man, than the knowledge of oneself, and the disdain of that which is properly known. For from it the human mind, which is the image of God, sees in itself the celestial fabric of nature and the world of its Origin, which is to be admired. In the sacred [texts] it stands: Let us make man to our Image and likeness. For man was made to the Image. You have lessened him a little less than the Angels. Because God created man inextinguishable, and made him to the Image of his likeness. But by the envy of the devil death entered into the world. Nazianzenus says about the making of man: Man, made by God after the rest, so that God might also express in him, under a certain brief compendium, whatever he had diffusely made before, that is to say, all the members of the whole world, the wisest artisan, says the Philosopher, founded this entire and most beautiful structure of all things for the sake of man, but man was made for the sake of God: Man therefore is an inhabitant of this whole universe, so that he may know both it and himself, and proclaim God with perpetual praises. To which law of Divinity indeed we all, as many as have been brought onto this stage from Adam by diverse acts of the centuries, seem deservedly not taught but made, not instituted but imbued. What is there, I ask, in the Republic of the human body which does not shine forth deposited here and there in the greater disposition of the whole universe, what is there in the wonderful structure of the world which man does not carry around in his own dungeon?

...multitude to fill the earth. In the very fiction of man, he enclosed [the elements] of those two materials, which we said are contrary among themselves, fire and water, and appointed reason over them. For the body being fashioned, he breathed into him a soul from the vital fountain of his spirit, which is perennial, so that he might bear the likeness of the world itself consisting of contrary Elements. For it consists of soul and body, that is, as if from heaven and earth, since the soul, by which we live, arises as it were from heaven from God: The body from the earth, which we said was formed from mud.