Souls are not now created; Moses on God's rest
Are souls still being made? If they arise now only by providence, not by creation, the account falters. Moses says God rested from all his works which he had begun to make (Genesis 2:2). Keep creating souls today and that rest is emptied. Make them by bodily succession instead and you drag them into the mortality of generated things. Both roads are absurd; so souls are not now coming to be. When it is said 'My Father is working still' (John 5:17), the sense is providence, not minting new soul-essences.
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Nemesius of Emesa, On Human Nature: the arguments on the soul.
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