On Fri, 8 May 1998, Tim Romano wrote:
> A while back, Dennis Martin said that, with respect to
> "ensoulment", Thomas Aquinas "was drawing on the best
> empirical knowledge of his day ... associating it with
> quickening".
A while back, I mentioned that I had read that animation of the fetus took
place on the 40th day. I have found the reference for this if anyone is
still interested. It was indeed in *Jacob's Well*, sermon 41 of
Brandeis's edition, p. 257, "ffor clerkys seyn, In xl. dayes [th]e chyld
in the moders wome hath ful schap of alle his bodyly membrys, & in [th]e
xl. day god puttyth [th]e soule & lyif in-=to [th]e body of [th]e chyld.
Vnde veritas: 'Quadraginta diebus edificatum est templum corporis pueri.'
Ry3t so, [th]ou in dedly synne, dysfyguryd & dysformyd in alle *i gostly &
bodyly membrys in al [th]e longe 3ere before, & deed wythoute lyif of
grace in [th]i soule; hast dede be-fore in synne, dysfiguryd & dysformyd,
my3ten encresyn & reformyn a3en in-to here ry3t schap be penaunce &
grace."
Hope this helps someone.
Clint
Clinton Atchley
University of Washington
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