Genesis 2:6
But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sed fons ascendebat e terra, irrigans universam superficiem terræ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πηγὴ δὲ ἀνέβαινεν ἐκ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐπότιζεν πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֵ֖ד יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה מִן הָאָ֑רֶץ וְהִשְׁקָ֖ה אֶֽת כָּל פְּנֵֽי הָֽאֲדָמָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, How We Must Understand that Breathing of God by Which ‘The First Man Was Made a Living Soul,’ And that Also by Which the Lord Conveyed His Spirit to His Disciples When He Said, ‘Receive Ye the Holy Ghost.’
Some have hastily supposed from the words, “God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul,” that a soul was not then first given to man, but that the soul already given was quickened by the Holy Ghost. They are encouraged in this supposition by the fact that the Lord Jesus after His resurrection breathed on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit.” From this they suppose that the same thing was effected in either case, as if the evangelist had gone on to say, And they became living souls. But if he had made this addition, we should only understand that the Spirit is in some way the life of souls, and that without Him reasonable souls must be accounted dead, though their bodies seem to live before our eyes. …