Genesis 2:7
Douay-Rheims
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.
Tertullian
Thus you read the word of God, spoken to Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you." If God forms us in the womb, he also breathes on us as he did in the beginning: "And God formed man and breathed into him the breath of life." Nor could God have known man in the womb unless he were a whole man.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Gen 2:7 (ON THE SOUL 26.5)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.