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dwelling spirit and hence no ability to comprehend and believe the things of

the spirit.

3. Notice what Philo the Judahite understood about the spiritual component
of "the Breath of life".

““But he [Moses] asserts that the FORMATION of the individual man [Ad-
am], perceptible by the external senses is A COMPOSITION OF EARTHY
SUBSTANCE, AND DIVINE SPIRIT. For that body [of Adam] was created
by the Creator [YEHOVAH God] taking a lump of clay, and fashioning the
human form out of it; but that the soul proceeds from NO created thing at
all, but from the Father and Ruler of all things.

"For when he [Moses] uses the expression, 'He breathed into,' etc., he
[Moses] MEANS NOTHING ELSE THAN THE DIVINE SPIRIT proceeding
from that happy and blessed nature [YEHOVAH God], sent to take up its
habitation here on earth [in Adam and his descendants], FOR THE AD-
VANTAGE OF OUR [ISRAELITE] RACE, in order that, even if man is mor-
tal according to that portion of him which is visible, he may at all events be
[eventually] IMMORTAL according to that portion which is invisible; and for
this reason, one may properly say that man is on the boundaries of a better
and an immortal nature [after the resurrection], partaking of each as far as
it is necessary for him; and that he [man -- descendants of Adam -- Israel-
ites] was born at the same time, both mortal and immortal.

"Mortal as to his body, but immortal [eventually] as to his intellect" (The
Works of Philo, translated by C. D. Yonge. "On the Creation, XLVI (134-
135)).

4. What does Philo go on to say?

"...for there must be three things, that which breathes in, that which re-
ceives what is breathed in, and that which is breathed in. Now that
which breathes in IS GOD, that which receives what is breathed in is THE
MIND [of Adam], and that which is breathed in is THE SPIRIT. What then is
collected from these three things? A UNION OF THREE takes place,
through God extending THE POWER, which proceeds from Himself
THROUGH THE SPIRIT, which is the middle term, as far as the subject.

"Why does He [YEHOVAH God] do this, except that we may thus derive A
PROPER NOTION [idea, belief] of Him? Since HOW could the soul have
perceived God if He [YEHOVAH God] had not inspired it, and touched it
according to His power? For human intellect would not have dared to

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