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Genesis 2:7

God forms man from the dust and breathes life into him.

Text — King James Version (1611)

2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Works discussing this passage

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• Gregory of Nyssa — On the Making of Man curated
• Basil of Caesarea — Hexaemeron curated

Cited in the Fathers’ own texts

• Gregory of Nazianzus — Select Orations cited in text · 3 references — Oration 2 (Gregory Nazianzen)
• Augustine of Hippo — City of God cited in text · 2 references — What We are to Understand by the Animal and Spiritual Body; Or of Those Who Die in Adam, And of Those Who are Made Alive in Christ.
• Aphrahat — Demonstrations (NPNF selection: I, V, VI, VIII, X, XVII, XXI, XXII) cited in text · 1 reference — Demonstration VI — Of Monks
• Augustine of Hippo — Confessions cited in text · 1 reference — Concerning the Living Soul, Birds, and Fishes (Ver. 24)— The Sacrament of the Eucharist Being Regarded.
• Jerome — Letters cited in text · 1 reference — (Jerome)
• Tertullian — Adversus Marcionem cited in text · 1 reference — Against Marcion, Book II (Tertullian)

Parallel passages

• Genesis 1:26–27 — Humanity made in the image of God.

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