III. In the Old Testament Ecclesiastes 12:7 is most clear; dust and spirit opposed (Augustine)
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III.In the Old Testament that of Ecclesiastes 12:7 is most clear: the dust (the body produced from dust) will return to the earth as it was (what was made from earth ought to return into earth), but the spirit will return to God who gave it.Here body and spirit or the rational soul are opposed: and as they are of diverse nature and origin, so also they obtain a diverse exit.The body indeed, made from soil and matter, returns or is resolved into that very thing from which it was made — that is, it perishes.But the soul, produced not from any matter but from nothing, when it returns has nowhere to return except to the author who gave it, as Augustine writes in On Genesis Literally book 10.
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III. In V. T. maxime perspicuum est illud Eccles. 12.v.7. redibit pulver (corpus e pulvere productum) in terram, quemadmodum fuit, (e terra factum in terram reverti oportet) spiritus autem redibit ad Deum, qui dedit ipsum. Hic opponuntur corpus & spiritus sive anima rationalis: & sicut sunt diversae naturae atque originis, ita & diversum exitum sortiuntur. Corpus quidem ex humo & materia factum, in hoc ipsum, ex quo factum, redit sive resolvitur, i.e. interit. Anima vero non ex aliqua materia, sed e nihilo producta, cum redit, non habet, quo redeat, nisi ad autorem, qui eam dedit, ut scribit Augustinus lib. 10. de Genesi ad literam.