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Annotation LX, Whether the Cherubim are incorporeal substances (Genesis 3:24)

“He placed before the paradise of pleasure a Cherubim.”

Annotatio LX

”He placed before the paradise of pleasure a Cherubim.” — Genesis 3:24

Procopius of Gaza, in the exposition of this passage, teaches that the Cherubim are not any kind of spiritual and incorporeal substance.1 See above, Annotation 58.

Footnotes

  1. Left margin: Whether the Cherubim are incorporeal substances. (An Cherubim sint substantiae incorporeae.) ↩

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