"Seek ye first the kingdom of the heavens and its righteousness, and all these things (which are recounted), shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)

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Comparison of the kingdom of God:

1. With the human body from inmosts to outmosts; and therefore concerning that society wherein the Messiah is the Soul, and which shall form one body as one man.

2. With the kindred in the house of Abraham and Nahor.

3. With the land of Canaan and its bordering countries.

4. With the Paradise of Eden.

5. With a marriage and a feast.

[For the above comparisons, see:

(1) n. The Word Explained 596 seq.

(2) n. 567-568.

(3) n. 477 seq.

(4) n. 498 seq.,

(5) n. 586.]

Men are men only so far as they walk in the way of truth. But so far as they turn aside therefrom, they approach to the nature of a beast.

15. And he breathed indo his nostrils the soul ¹ of lives, or, according to Castellio, the vital spirit. That by this soul or spirit is meant the atmosphere admitted into the lungs, which were then opened up, may be concluded and confirmed from numerous passages in the Scripture; confer above, chapter 12 [n. 1], where the ethereal atmosphere is called the Divine Spirit; confer also Genesis 6:17, 7:15, 22; Exodus 15:8, 10; 2 Samuel 22:16; Job 27:3; Psalm 104:29, 30.

The same may also be seen quite clearly from the inspiration or inbreathing effected through the nostrils; and also from the fact that the corporeal life commences from the inspiration or opening up of the lungs, and is absolutely dependent thereon. For infants do not live as to the body or as to sensation and motion until the lungs have been opened; nor are the superior lives able to actuate any life in the body, or in its ultimate natures, until this soul of lives, as it is called, has been admitted or inspired through the nostrils. Wherefore it was only after this had been done that man became a living soul, or, according to Castellio, from which spirit he was made a breathing man. A living soul is attributed also to every animal, as in Genesis 1:30 above, and also in 2:19; whence it follows that this soul or this inbreathed spirit was not the rational or heavenly soul.

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