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Translated by John Patrick.
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For the Scripture well knows the distinction between spirit and soul, as, "May God sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ;" [5837] and the passage, "Bless the Lord, ye spirits and souls of the righteous" [5838] as it stands in the book of Daniel, according to the Septuagint, represents the difference between spirit and soul. Elijah, therefore, was not called John because of the soul, but because of the spirit and the power, which in no way conflicts with the teaching of the church, though they were formerly in Elijah, and afterwards in John; and "the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets," [5839] but the souls of the prophets are not subject to the prophets, and "the spirit of Elijah rested on Elisha." [5840] But we ought to inquire whether the spirit of Elijah is the same as the spirit of God in Elijah, or whether they are different from each other, and whether the spirit of Elijah which was in him was something supernatural, different from the spirit of each man which is in him; for the Apostle clearly indicates that the Spirit of God, though it be in us, is different from the spirit of each man which is in Him, when he says somewhere, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God;" [5841] and elsewhere, "No one of men knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of the man which is in him; even so the things of God none knoweth save the Spirit of God." [5842]
[5837] 1 Thess. v. 23.
[5838] Dan. iii. 86. (Song of the Three Children 64.)
[5839] 1 Cor. xiv. 32.
[5840] 2 Kings ii. 15.
[5841] Rom. viii. 16.
[5842] 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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