Annotatio XXX
”He breathed into his face the breath of life.” — Genesis 2:7
Augustine, in the seventh book On Genesis to the Letter, which he wrote upon this particle, chapter 24, seems to establish that the soul of the first man was created with the angels on the first day of the world’s making, and then, on the sixth day, infused into the human body:1 which indeed is repugnant to the opinion of all the theologians. St. Thomas, in the first part of the Summa Theologica, question 90, article 4, shows that Augustine did not put this forth by asserting it, but left it to the judgment of the readers2 — which his own words also demonstrate, when he says: “Let them believe [it], provided, however, that no authority of the scriptures, or reason of truth, contradicts.” An observation of this kind you have below, in Annotation 189 of book 1 of this [work].