All which doctrine is founded only on some of the obscurer places of the New Testament; which nevertheless, the whole scope of the Scripture considered, are clear enough in a different sense, and unnecessary to the Christian faith. For supposing that when a man dies, there remaineth nothing of him but his carcass; cannot God, that raised inanimated dust and clay into a living creature by His word, as easily raise a dead carcass to life again, and continue him alive forever, or make him die again, by another word? The “soul” in Scripture, signifieth always, either the life or the living creature; and the body and soul jointly, the “body alive.” In the fifth day of the creation, God said: Let the waters produce reptile animae viventis , the creeping thing that hath in it a living soul; the English translate it, “that hath life.” And again, God created whales, et omnem animam viventem ; which in the English is, “every living creature.” And likewise of man, God made him of the dust of the earth, and breathed in his face the breath of life, et factus est homo in animam viventem