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A Treatise on the Soul

Early third-century treatise that refutes transmigration and explains John the Baptist as coming in Elijah’s spirit and power, not his soul.

Citation

Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul 28-35.

Use

Used for early Christian refutation of transmigration and the John-Elijah proof text more than a century before Nicaea.