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Parents and Their Children |
Excerpted from Expositio in Hexaemeron |
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Some causes of the soul of the parents, moreover, seem to be causes of the souls of sons. For, in the same way that the bodies of those who are created draw their form or qualities from the bodies of parents, so too their souls come from the parents' souls. Quippe sicut animae parentum rationales vel brutae sunt, ita oblectantur alimentis, et frequentant filii hominum in moribus quoque parentes imitantur sicut et in qualitatibus corporum. Unde nonnulle, ut dictum est, causae naturales et quaedam origines animae parentum videntur esse animarum filiorum, sicut et qualitates quaedam, quas incorporeae naturae constat esse, aliarum qualitatum quas inferunt et quodammodo naturaliter generare habent, sicut infirmitas unius infirmitatem alterius, vel in eodem in quo est subiecto pallorem efficit tamquam ex se natum, non tamen per traducem sed per quamdam id efficiendi naturalem vim atque facultatem. |