⁸ He is a human being who was himself formed from earth only a short while earlier, and after a little while, when he must return the soul that was lent to him, he will go back to the same earth. He is a human being, but he wastes his labor shaping a useless god out of the same clay that he uses to make pots.

¹¹ because he never came to know the God who shaped him, who breathed into him an active soul and a living spirit.

^45 (A)For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.