 | Charles Hodge - 1871 - 914 pages
...exalt without inflating ; to humble without degrading him. The Bible teaches that God made man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul conformed to the image of God in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness. Thus... | |
 | Chetham Society - 1872 - 208 pages
...earth, and all the host of them, were finished in six days : as is proued in Gen : ii. i. IBELEEUE that god made man, of the dust of the earth, and breathed into him, the breath of life ; and the man was a liuing soule. Gen : ii. vii. consisting of soule, and body, created, and framed by gods... | |
 | William Gresley - Bible - 1872 - 236 pages
...that GOD created the heaven and the earth and all things in them ; that He made the first man from the dust of the earth, and breathed into him the breath of life, and so man became a living soul. Is not the man, or even the school-child, who believes that life proceeded... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...him. Here the hand of God sculptured this antetype of the human countenance, ages before he created man of the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life. Oh ! if the stony lips of this changeless form could be made vocal, its history would be worth more... | |
 | Robert Barclay - Great Britain - 1877 - 820 pages
...ii. 17, 25) ; He created them male and female (to wit) one man and one woman (Gen. i. 27); He framed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into him the breath of life, so the man was a living Soul (Gen. ii. 7 ; 1 Cor. xv. 45). But the woman He made of a rib, taken out... | |
 | john swann withington and r. abercrombie - 1883 - 812 pages
...were good Christians before creeds. A Christian is a man who has felt the power of a Divine life. When God made man of the dust of the earth and breathed into him a living soul, a new order of being was introduced on the scene, one who could take hold of a Divine... | |
 | Criticism - 1844 - 666 pages
...communicated to the dead, .does no more imply a contradiction, than to say, that God formed man, at first, of the dust of the earth, and breathed into him the breath of life. Has not he who with a word created all substances, power to change and modify them u he pleases ? Has... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 916 pages
...a ghost within them, but by some supernaturnal " dream " or " vision." Gen. ii. 7, it is said, ' ' God made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils (spiracitlum vita) the breath of life, and mau was made a living soul." There the "breath... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 pages
...second from the womb of the elements. The Scripture says of the generation of the rational sold, that "God made man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." But the creation of the irrational soul, or the soul of brutes, was... | |
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