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and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Verse 7. It. Man is composed of two distinct parts; the destination of which we ought never to forget. Thus the objection of infidels (chapter 3:19) is refuted. Plato and some of the ancients had the same idea of the soul’s spiritual nature; though some took it to be an aerial body. Calmet.
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