“It is said also by those who treat of the nature and generation of animals, that the change of the blood into bone is something invisible and intangible, although in the case of other parts, I mean the flesh and nerves, the mode of their formation may be seen. And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, say…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On the Words in Psalm CXXXIX. 15
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15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
— Psalms 139:15 —
16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!