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Eustathius is addressing the Pythagoreans and Platonists, arguing from the observable condition of newborn infants that souls are not unbegotten.
For if children at the very moment of birth had been attached to complete wisdom, it would perhaps be possible for some to feign folly.But if they are lacking in mind and reason and understanding, then souls have not been established as unbegotten in nature.We all know, then, that the soul has been stretched out together with the masses of the body—not only in the size or smallness of its limbs, but also in the other irrationalities of the disposition.As long as these infants are newly formed, these infants are at a loss for every thought everywhere and for counsel.But as they advance little by little and gradually, it takes on mind and wisdom and reason in addition.