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For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
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Verse 11. Life, (anima). The sensitive soul depends on the blood. The soul and the blood are often used in the same sense. Deuteronomy 12:23. Ps 29:10. Sanguine quærendi reditus animaque litandum—Argolica. Æneid ii. Calmet.—If any one think that blood is the soul of cattle, we need not examine this question very nicely. Saint Augustine q. 57. D.
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