2. Cf. Col 3.10. 3. Cf. 1 Cor 15.53. (continued)
TRACTATE 8 181 that is, the inhabitant of the body, do these things? And yet it is not seen by the eyes and it is from these things which it does that it arouses wonderment.
(3) Let your reflection now turn to the human soul to which God had granted intellect for discovering its creator, for discerning and distinguishing between good and evil, that is between the just and the unjust. How many things it does through the body! Observe the whole world organized in the human commonwealth itself. With what administrations, with what classifications of powers, constitutions of cities, laws, customs, arts? All this is accomplished by the soul and this power of the soul is not seen. When it is taken out of the body, a corpse lies there; but when it is in the body, it first, in some way, preserves the body from putrefaction. For all flesh is perishable and proceeds to putrefaction unless it is held back by, as it were, some preservative of the soul. The human soul has this in common with the animal soul; rather those things are to be admired which I have mentioned, which relate to mind and intellect, wherein also man is renewed in accordance with the image of his creator in accordance with whose image he was made.^ (4) What will this power of the soul be when this body has put on incorruption and this mortal body has put on immortality?^ If it can do so much through corruptible flesh, what will it be able to do through a spiritual body after the resurrection of the dead? Yet this soul, as I have said, of wondrous nature and essence, is an invisible thing and able to be perceived by the mind; and yet it was made by Jesus God, because he is the Word of God. "All things were made by him, and without him was made nothing."^
3. Therefore, when we see such great things done by the God Jesus, why are we amazed that water was turned into wine by the man Jesus? For he was not made man in such a way that he lost what was God. Man was added to him; God was not lost. Therefore he who did all those things did this.
2. Cf. Col 3.10. 4. Cf.Jn 1.3. 3. Cf. 1 Cor 15.53.