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patience possess ye your souls. 33 “ My soul doth magnify the 
Lord.” “ Fear came upon every soul. 33 “ Do it heartily as 
unto the Lord,” literally as from the soul. “ Would have 
imparted unto you not only the Gospel, but our own souls also, 
because ye were dear unto us.” 
21. The Greek myth rightly personified the soul in the 
female form of Psyche, for the relation which the soul bears to 
the spirit is not unlike that which the woman bears to the 
man. I have no wish here to break a lance with Mr. Mill, but 
I may observe that I could never arrive at the conclusion, 
from pneumatical and psychical principles, that the sexes were 
equal. At creation the tjunrvevaiQ or breathing upon Adam was 
not repeated in the case of Eve; hence S. Paul says, “ A man 
ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and 
glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. For 
the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. 
Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman 
for the man.” (Gen. ii. 21, 22, and 1 Cor. xi. 7 — 9.) There was 
a creatively-established dependence in the woman, and there 
was a creatively-established spiritual superiority in the man. 
Into man's nostrils God breathed the Divine breath of intelli- 
gence. But the woman had her beginning in the man. From 
the first she had a subordinate position, and was different in 
constitution of her nature. “ Naturae humanae vir est intel- 
lects, qui a Grascis vocatur vovg, mulier sensus, qui foeminino 
genere aiaB^aic exprimitur” (Scotus.) In man the intellect or 
pneumatical part is stronger, being derived directly from 
God ; in woman the sensitivity or psychical part is stronger, 
as her very origin, in Adam's psychical part, was designed to 
show. The tempter knew this fact, to which every day's ex- 
perience also testifies ; he knew that Eve's psychical nature 
would be more easily swayed by passion and appetite than 
Adam's pneumatical nature, and he tempted her. Delitzsch 
has a passage on this point which so exactly expresses my 
thoughts that I must quote his words : he says, “ Man and 
woman are distinguished as are spirit and soul, by self- 
conscious energy on the one hand, and resigned passivity on 
the other,, The woman is the man inverted; in her 
preponderates the principle negatively active, turned from 
without inwards, from the circumference to the centre, living 
itself forth, in adopting and receiving, which corresponds to 
the Nephesh, i.e., the soul.” All history testifies to a differ- 
ence in the sexes, revelation utters the same voice, and the 
genius of grammar answers to this distinction which both his- 
tory and revelation combine to establish. How is it that in 
an age of intellectual or pneumatical pride like this, when 
