II.
From the Commentary of the Holy
Hippolytus of Rome Upon Genesis.1190
| 1190
From the Second Book of the Res Sacræ of Leontius and
Joannes, in Mai, Script. vet., vii. p. 84. |
Gen. ii. 7
“And God formed man of the dust of the ground.” And
what does this import? Are we to say, according to the opinion of
some, that there were three men made, one spiritual, one animal, and
one earthy? Not such is the case, but the whole narrative is of
one man. For the word, “Let us make,” is about the
man that was to be; and then comes the word, “God made man of the
dust of the ground,” so that the narrative is of one and the same
man. For then He says, “Let him be made,” and now He
“makes him,” and the narrative tells “how” He
makes him.
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