The whole person, known and formed by God

At any rate, he brings both together into one, just as they also share a single name, the combined thing being called sometimes soul and sometimes flesh. So too when the apostle calls the man the image of God because of the inbreathing that came to him from God and did not come upon the woman, he clearly includes the body together with the soul, insofar as the male is distinguished from the female.

Psalm 138 (139):9–10. This is just what appeared in the case of Jonah, when he fled to the sea and found God's power at work both in the movement of the waters, stirring up waves, and in the nature of the creatures: the sea-monster received him and did not crush him, and he was kept safe inside the sea-monster and suffered no corruption (Psalm 139:9-10; LXX 138:9-10).

Psalm 138 (139):15–16. You know my very subsistence, he says, and the composition of my bones is your work (Psalm 139:15-16; LXX 138:15-16). In the hidden place of my mother's womb, as if within the earth, you knew me as one intricately wrought even before I was formed. And I am written by you as in a book, and every human being who is fashioned is measured by a fixed time and a set number of days (Psalm 139:16). This is indeed the wonder of the order and precise symmetry: that the production of life is brought to completion with not a single day lacking.

Psalm 138 (139):17–18. I did not think, he says, that the righteous were few, even though at any given time only a small number are found. Rather, I looked to the whole multitude that has existed from eternity, and I saw that they are many and greater in number, whom the resurrection will display all together—and especially now, when they have increased into a multitude at the coming of Christ, according to the words, "The whole earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord," and "I will give thanks to you in the great church; in a heavy people I will praise you" (Psalm 35:18).

Psalm 138 (139):23–24. Since righteous men are precious in your sight and are laid up for eternal glory, while the wicked are destined for destruction, I beseech you that I may be cleansed from all wickedness by the cleansing that comes from you, who are able to purify us even when we fall into evil through ignorance (Psalm 139:24). I pray that you cleanse me, he says, from every evil that leads to destruction and lead me through good deeds, for which eternal life will be given.

Psalm 139:9 (140:8). What is said is worthy of God: that lawlessness be given no proud thought and no exaltation against righteousness, and that their bitter and destructive purpose not come to fulfillment nor be permitted to prevail over those against whom they hold their bitterness (Psalm 140:8). For when injustice succeeds, it becomes far more grievous and grows into blasphemy against the God of righteousness.

Psalm 139:11 (140:10). And they will fall a fall—not the kind the righteous fall when they fall and rise again, but the incurable kind that no longer comes to resurrection (Psalm 140:10). They will depart into obscurity, unable to become established on the earth, but driven out from it into destructive punishments.

Psalm 140 (141):2. If by morning we understand the life that is coming, the life of rest and glory for the righteous, then let us understand the present life as night and evening—evening because it retains something of light through the remaining knowledge of the good and because of the gifts from God, and night because of the darkness of wickedness and the domination of the world-rulers of darkness (Psalm 141:2; LXX 140:2).