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 destruction. It is created with capacities to know God and to love Him; these capacities are God's dwelling-places in the human race; and therefore it is plain that the soul to which they belong cannot perish. This explains to us the Divine declaration, "Because I live, ye shall live also."

But although the soul is a spiritual body, endowed with immortality, we must always remember that it does not live of itself; it is simply an imperishable organism created for the reception and manifestation of life from the Lord. It is "in Him we live and move and have our being:" "there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding:" "the Spirit of God hath made him, and the breath of the Almighty hath given him life." It is easy to see this difference between the soul of man and the life by which he lives; moreover, it is beautifully distinguished in the original Greek by two different words, namely, psyche and zoe, both of which are sometimes rendered "soul:" but by psyche is properly meant the spiritual organism of the soul, and by zoe the life from God by which it lives.