Gregory of Nazianzus, on Gen 2:7

“And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”

“The soul is the breath of God, a substance of heaven mixed with the lowest earth, a light entombed in a cave, yet wholly divine and unquenchable.… He spoke, and taking some of the newly minted earth his immortal hands made an image into which he imparted some of his own life. He sent his spirit, a beam from the invisible divinity.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.