Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
It. Man is composed of two distinct parts; the destination of which we ought never to forget. Thus the objection of infidels (chap. iii. 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)