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Eclesiastes 12

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Eclesiastes 12:7

"Before the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." What could be said more clearly than that the matter of the flesh, which he styled dust because it springs from the seed of man and seems to be sown by his acts, must again return to the earth because it was taken from the earth? At the same time he points out that the spirit which is not begotten by intercourse between the sexes, but belongs to God alone in a special way, returns to its creator. This too is clearly implied in that breathing by God, through which Adam in the first instance received his life. — CONFERENCE 8:25