Plato means it literally, and the Scriptures figuratively. ↩

When it was infused into the body, or the body became informed with it.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica , I , Quaest. LXXVI I, says:⁠—

“Form is that by which a thing is⁠ ⁠… This principle therefore, by which we first think, whether it be called intellect, or intellectual soul, is the form of the body.”