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Our Christian commentators may differ in measure, but will 
not detract from the grandeur of this distinction. God chose 
to create man, alone among all creatures of the earth capable 
of the knowledge of Himself. He therefore gave him not only 
a ; psychical , but a 'pneumatic nature. He formed his body 
indeed of the dust of the earth, that is to say, of the materials 
of this visible and tangible world, but he superadded some- 
thing of His own special bestowment. He breathed into his 
nostrils the breath of lives, D”n and man became a living soul. 
The living soul life rvn vs: he shares in common with 
“ every beast of the earth, and every fowl of the air, and every 
thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is living soul”;* 
but taking into consideration the speciality of the act, and the 
plurality of the result f< lives , ” and not simply one life, we are 
fully justified in the above conclusions. 
In reference to the inferior creation, all is described as the 
simple embodying of ideas, previously existing in the Divine 
mind, or perhaps I should rather say in the Logos or personal 
Word Himself — ff Jehovah Elohim made every plant of the field 
before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it 
grew/'f 
YlavTolaiQ ISiaiQ Kt^ap lagivoQ, uiv gia 7Djy»/. 
Beautified with all kinds of ideas of which there is one fountain.^ 
These are all transitory ; they may pass away, and the 
very type itself be forgotten until it be resuscitated through 
the researches of the palasontologist, bringing to light the 
wonders of a past age. 
But the Scripture declares it is not so with man, for the 
Eternal One (Jehovah) declared to Moses, “ I am the God of 
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God 
is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto 
Him.'”§ If they live unto Him, they live according to His eternal 
life. His name, I AM, secures unto them an eternal NOW in 
His blissful presence. || 
* Gen. i. 30. f Gen. li. 5. 
| Cory’s Ancient Fragments, p. 106. 
§ Matt. xxii. 32 ; Mark xii. 27 ; Luke xx. 36. 
j| Well given by Watts as follows : — 
1 His boundless years can ne’er decrease, 
But still maintain their prime ; 
Eternity’s His dwelling place, 
And Ever is His time. 
2 While like a tide our minutes flow 
The present and the past ; 
He fills His own immortal Now, 
And sees our ages waste. 
