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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John… (1885)

He did not observe how Paul speaks of the spiritual, [2] and how he refrains from saying that they are men. “A natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; but the spiritual judgeth all things.” We maintain that it was not without a meaning that he did not add the word men to the word spiritual. Spiritual is something better than man, for man receives his form either in soul, or in body, or in both together, not in what is more divine than these, namely, in spirit
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