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Archelaus Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acts of Disputation… (1885)

Man appears to resemble a ship which has been constructed by the builder and launched into the deep, which, however, it is impossible to navigate without the rudder, by which it can be kept under command, and turned in whatsoever direction its steersman may wish to sail. Also, that the rudder and the whole body of the ship require the same artificer, is a matter admitting no doubt; for without the rudder the whole structure of the ship, that huge body, will be an inert mass. And thus, then, we say that the soul is the rudder of the body
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Archelaus Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acts of Disputation… (1885)

Contemplate man as a kind of temple, according to the similitude of Scripture: [1] the spirit that is in man may thus be likened to the image that dwells in the temple. Well, then, a temple cannot be constituted unless first an occupant is acknowledged for the temple; and, on the other hand, an occupant cannot be settled in the temple unless the structure has been erected.
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