“But you shall die like men. You see, then, that he who is a man dies. For God does not die. And Adam, as long as he kept the commandment and was a god, did not die. But after he tasted of the forbidden tree, immediately he died. Finally God says to him: 'On whatever day you taste, you shall die the death.' It has it b…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 14, on Psalm 81
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7But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
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5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
— Psalms 82:7 —
8Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.