Philo of Alexandria

XII. " And God created man, taking a lump of clay from the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life : and man became a living soul." The races of men are twofold ; for one is the heavenly man, and the other the earthly man. Now the heavenly man, as being born in the image of God, has no participation in any corruptible or earth-like essence. But the earthly man is made of loose material, which ho calls a lump of clay, On which account he says, not that the heavenly man was made, but that he was fashioned according to the imao-e of God ; but the earthly man he calls a thing made, and not begotten by the maker. And we must consider that the man who was formed of earth, means the mind which is to be infused into the body, but which has not yet been so infused. And this mind would be really earthly and corruptible, if it. were not that God had breathed into it the spirit of genuine life ; for then it " exists," and is no longer made into a soul ; and its soul is not inactive, and incapable of proper formation, but a really intellectual and living one. " For man," says Moses, " became a living soul."