Pre-Existence Of Souls
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PRE-EXISTENCE OF SOULS.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our lifes star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
The idea expressed in these lines has been prominent in many religionscultured and crude alike. That it had Jewish adherents is clear from (a) Wis_8:19-20, written by some Jewish thinker influenced (as, e.g., Philo, a believer in the same doctrine, was conspicuously) by Platonist study; (b) the reference of Josephus to Essene doctrines; (c) the Talmud. That traces occur in the OT is doubtful. The idea can be more easily read into, than gathered out of, such passages as Job_1:21 (cf. Sir_40:1), Ecc_12:7, Psa_139:16. Cf. also Rev_4:11 b. But something very like it occurs Joh_9:2. Had the man been born blind because of his own sin? In His reply Christ finds no fault with the question as such. The objection that such an idea would be unfamiliar to the disciples is weakened by considerations as to the advanced thought of the Fourth Gospel; moreover, the Book of Wisdom (see above) is clearly re-echoed in NT. Some think that the question rose from Jewish ideas as to pre-natal consciousness. See Gen_25:22 (strife), Luk_1:41-44 (joy). Non liquet must be the verdict. The subject re-appears in Origens speculative teaching and, indirectly, in related controversies.
H. F. B. Compston.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our lifes star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
The idea expressed in these lines has been prominent in many religionscultured and crude alike. That it had Jewish adherents is clear from (a) Wis_8:19-20, written by some Jewish thinker influenced (as, e.g., Philo, a believer in the same doctrine, was conspicuously) by Platonist study; (b) the reference of Josephus to Essene doctrines; (c) the Talmud. That traces occur in the OT is doubtful. The idea can be more easily read into, than gathered out of, such passages as Job_1:21 (cf. Sir_40:1), Ecc_12:7, Psa_139:16. Cf. also Rev_4:11 b. But something very like it occurs Joh_9:2. Had the man been born blind because of his own sin? In His reply Christ finds no fault with the question as such. The objection that such an idea would be unfamiliar to the disciples is weakened by considerations as to the advanced thought of the Fourth Gospel; moreover, the Book of Wisdom (see above) is clearly re-echoed in NT. Some think that the question rose from Jewish ideas as to pre-natal consciousness. See Gen_25:22 (strife), Luk_1:41-44 (joy). Non liquet must be the verdict. The subject re-appears in Origens speculative teaching and, indirectly, in related controversies.
H. F. B. Compston.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
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