Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 09 — Section 1021
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 9
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The soul, accordingly [1806] , is a living essence, simple, incorporeal, invisible in its proper nature to bodily eyes, immortal, reasoning and intelligent, formless, making use of an organised body, and being the source of its powers of life, and growth, and sensation, and generation [1807] , mind being but its purest part and not in any wise alien to it; (for as the eye to the body, so is the mind to the soul); further it enjoys freedom and volition and energy, and is mutable, that is, it is given to change, because it is created. All these qualities according to nature it has receiv…
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