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this passage---(Proverbs VIII. 22-31). Here all the passages except the last two prove the pre-existence of soul, and not the creation at a certain time. The last two passages even prove a prior physical life. Let us turn to Jeremiah I 5. "Before I formed thee in the belley I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.” This shows that the proehets too had existed before. Even in the New Testament there is sufficient evidence for re-incarnation. In John IX 2 a question is put to Jesus by his disciples-Which did sin, this man or bis parents that he was born blind ? This refers to two popular theories of the time-one that of Moses who taught that the sins of fathers would descend on the children to the third and the fourth generation and the other that of re-incarnation doctrine. He merely says that neither that man's sin nor his father's sin was the cause of his blindness; he does not deny the pre-existence of that man. For in Galatians Ch. VI 7 we fiad for whatever a man soweth that shall he also the reap. Paul does not here mean that what a man soweth in this physical existence that he shall reap in spiritual existence. For in the next passage he says: -For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life ever lasting. Even the words of Jesus confirin the doctrine. In St. Mathew Ch. XI he says: Verily I
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