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Aquinas defends Scripture’s wording about man’s creation: the plural “Let us make” signifies the Trinity, “breath of life” means the soul as the body’s form, and “face” highlights senses.
is the breath of life, is in the whole body, and chiefly in the heart. Therefore it was not fittingly said: "He breathed into his face the breath of life." Obj. 5: Further, the male and female sex belong to the body, while the image of God belongs to the soul. But the soul, according to Augustine (Gen. ad lit. vii, 24), was made before the body. Therefore having said: "To His image He made them," he should not have …