An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

Secondly, ^*the frame of the body is called a house, in respect of the soul; the soul dwells in or inhabits the body, as the whole man inhabits or dwells in a house; the soul guides and orders the body, as the inhabitant orders the affairs of the house, or as the Mariner and Pilot steer and direct the motions of the ship: Not that the soul is in the body accidentally (we must not strain the similitude so far) as a man is in a house, or a Mariner is in a ship: there is a formal union between the body and the soul; only the soul is said to dwell in the body, and the body or the matter is after called a foundation, because there is the beginning. Man was begun at his body, as the house is at the foundation: first God formed man (that is the body) out of the dust of the earth, and then he breathed ⟨p. 146⟩into him the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Secondly, ^*the frame of the body is called a house, in respect of the soul; the soul dwels in or inhabits the body, as the whole man inhabits or dwels in a house; the soule guides and orders the body, as the inhabitant orders the affairs of the house, or as the Mariner and Pilot steer and direct the motions of the ship: Not that the soul is in the body accidentally (we must not strain the similitude so far) as a man is in a house, or a Mariner is in a ship: there is a formall union between the body and the soul; only the soul is said to dwell in the body, and the body or the matter is after called a foundation, because there is the beginning. Man was begun at his body, as the house is at the foundation: first God formed man (that is the body) out of the dust of the earth, and then he breathed ⟨p. 146⟩into him the breath of life, and man became a living soule.

1. *Hoc corpus luteum domus animae dicitur, quia anima humana quantum ad aliquid est in corpore sicut homo in domo, vel sicut nanta in navy, in quā tum scilicet est motor corporis; anima a utem non unitur corpori accidentaliter sed formaliter, ut forma materiae, dicitur enim materia fundamentum formae, eò quod est prima pars in generatione, sunt fundamenum in constitution domus. Aquin.