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Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) De natura et origine animae

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A Treatise on the soul and its origin

Book I. [^2343]

Addressed to Renatus, the Monk.

On receiving from Renatus the two books of Vincentius Victor, who disapproved of Augustin's opinion touching the nature of the soul, and of his hesitation in respect of its origin, Augustin points out how the young objector, in his self-conceit in aiming to decide on so abstruse a subject, had fallen into insufferable mistakes. He then proceeds to show that those passages of Scripture by which Victor thought he could prove that human souls are not derived by propagation, but are breathed by God afresh into each man at birth, are ambiguous, and inadequate for the confirmation of this opinion of his.

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De l'âme et de son origine

LIVRE PREMIER. ERREURS DE VINCENT VICTOR.

Augustin y relève la témérité et les erreurs de Vincent Victor sur la nature et l'origine de l'âme. Il examine les témoignages de la sainte Ecriture, cités par Vincent, et prouve qu'ils ne sont pas en faveur de la thèse de son adversaire.

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A Treatise on the soul and its origin
De l'âme et de son origine

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Faculty of Theology, Patristics and History of the Early Church
Miséricorde, Av. Europe 20, CH 1700 Fribourg

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