Anf-01 ix.vii.xiii Pg 5
Isa. lvii. 16.
Thus does he attribute the Spirit as peculiar to God which in the last times He pours forth upon the human race by the adoption of sons; but [he shows] that breath was common throughout the creation, and points it out as something created. Now what has been made is a different thing from him who makes it. The breath, then, is temporal, but the Spirit eternal. The breath, too, increases [in strength] for a short period, and continues for a certain time; after that it takes its departure, leaving its former abode destitute of breath. But when the Spirit pervades the man within and without, inasmuch as it continues there, it never leaves him. “But that is not first which is spiritual,” says the apostle, speaking this as if with reference to us human beings; “but that is first which is animal, afterwards that which is spiritual,”4534 4534
Anf-03 iv.xi.xi Pg 6
Tertullian’s reading of Isa. lvii. 16.
And again: “He giveth breath unto the people that are on the earth, and Spirit to them that walk thereon.”1565 1565
Anf-03 v.v.xxxii Pg 14
Flatum: “breath;” so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16.
In like manner the same Wisdom says of the waters, “Also when He made the fountains strong, things which6468 6468 Fontes, quæ.
are under the sky, I was fashioning6469 6469 Modulans.
them along with Him.”6470 6470
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 57
VERSE (16) - Ps 78:38,39; 85:5; 103:9-16 Jer 10:24 Mic 7:18
