1 Thessalonians 5:23

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  “Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Th 5:23.

Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies II.19Book II

  “…any occasion it happens to congeal in it, it will acquire the form of the vessel in which it has thus been frozen, since souls themselves possess the figure of the body [in which they dwell]; for they themselves have been adapted to the vessel [in which they exist], as I have said before.” — editor's note: As Massuet here remarks, we may infer from this passage that Irenæus believed souls to be corporeal, as being possessed of a definite form,—an opinion…

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• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.6Book V

  “…peace sanctify you perfect (perfectos); and may your spirit, and soul, and body be preserved whole without complaint to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23. [I have before referred the student to the “Biblical Psychology” of Prof. Delitzsch (translation), T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1868.]

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 24

  “And the God of peace sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body be preserved entire without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:—To whom be glory and honour and might, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and world without end.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VII.17Book VII

  “…which the bodily senses represent outward things, and up to which reach the capabilities of beasts; and thence, again, I passed on to the reasoning faculty, unto which whatever is received from the senses of the body is referred to be judged, which also, finding itself to be variable in me, raised itself up to its…” — editor's note: Here, and more explicitly in sec. 25, we have before us what has been called the “trichotomy” of man. This doctrine Augustin does not deny in theory, but…

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 3

  “I think that this should be here taken of the human mind, which is not unreasonably called the head of the soul; which so inhered in, and in a sort coalesced with, the supereminent excellency of the Word taking man, that it was not laid aside by so great humiliation of the Passion.” — editor's note: [1 Thess. v. 23. See Tertull. vol. iii. p. 450, A.N.F.; also Irenæus, vol. i. p. 386, ibid.—C.]

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §3

  “Eran.—What then do you say to be proper to the soul?” — editor's note: All through the argument there seems to be some confusion between the two senses of ψυχή as denoting the immortal and the animal part of man, and so between…

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• Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History V.3Book V

  “Thus the earthly body is represented as worshipped by invisible powers, while the soul which is made in the image of God has remained below invested with the dishonour of sin.” — editor's note: Adopting Platonic and Pauline psychology giving body, soul and spirit (cf. 1 Thess. v. 23, and Gal. v. 17) Apollinarius attributed to Christ a human body and a…

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First Council of Constantinople (381)

• First Council of Constantinople (381), First Council of Constantinople, Excursus on the Heresies Condemned in Canon IEditor's excursus

  “Adopting the psychological trichotomy of Plato (σῶμα ψυχὴ, πνεῦμα), for which he quoted 1.” — the author cites it

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 48

  “But if married persons are to have trouble in the flesh, the only thing in which they seemed likely to have pleasure, what motive will be left to make women marry? for, besides having trouble in spirit and soul, they will also have it even in the flesh.”” — editor's note: 1 Th. v. 23.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 120

  “(12) What is the meaning of 1 Thes. v. 23?” — the author cites it

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 46

  “So by my prayers I tried to make you more secure, if by any means “your body, soul, and spirit might be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women II.6Book II

  “But nothing can rise except flesh and spirit sole and pure.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 50 with 1 Thess. v. 23.

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• Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 47

  “And as if this were not plain enough, it goes on to say: “And may your whole body, and soul, and spirit be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23.

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• Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57

  “I suppose, moreover, that he promises to the Thessalonians the integrity of the whole substance of man.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 13–17 and v. 23.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.14Book V

  “…in one prayer for their safety, desiring that our “spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour (Jesus) Christ?”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23. For a like application of this passage, see also our author’s treatise, De Resurrect. Carnis, cap. xlvii. [Elucidation I.]

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit III.4Book III

  “The Father sanctifies according to that which is written: “The God of peace sanctify you, and may your spirit, soul, and body be preserved entire without blame in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 23.

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Gregory of Nyssa

• Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.9On the Making of Man

  “…element of the sensitive nature: so that man consists of these three: as we are taught the like thing by the apostle in what he says to the Ephesians, praying for them that the complete grace of their “body and soul and spirit” may be preserved at the coming of the Lord; using, the word “body” for the…” — editor's note: The reference is really to 1 Thess. v. 23. Apparently all Forbes’ mss. read πρὸς τοὺς ᾽Εφεσίους: but the Latin version of Dionysius Exiguus corrects the error,…

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• 2 Thessalonians 2:13

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• Exodus 15:10

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• Amos 9:6

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• Matthew 12:36

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• Matthew 26:38

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• Mark 12:30

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• John 1:6

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• John 1:7

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• John 1:8

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• John 2:19

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• John 2:20

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• John 2:21

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• 1 Corinthians 1:26

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• 1 Corinthians 1:28

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• 1 Corinthians 2:6

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• 1 Corinthians 3:16

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• 1 Corinthians 3:17

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13

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• 1 Corinthians 6:14

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• 1 Corinthians 10:1

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• 1 Corinthians 10:2

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• 1 Corinthians 10:3

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• 1 Corinthians 15:44

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• Galatians 5:17

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• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

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• 1 Thessalonians 4:3

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• 1 Thessalonians 4:5

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• 1 Thessalonians 4:13

  Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 57.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:15

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• 1 Thessalonians 4:16

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• 1 Thessalonians 4:17

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