13. At the present day, the union of soul and body is unknown. This is owing to the hypothesis of the learned, especially that of the Cartesians and others, that the soul is a substance separate from the body, in some place or other; when yet the soul is the inmost man; consequently, is man from head to heel. Thence it is that, according to the ancients, the soul is in the whole, and in every part thereof and that in whatever part the soul is not inmostly, there the life of man is not. By virtue of this union it is that all things of the soul are of the body, and all things of the body are of the soul; as the Lord said concerning His Father, that all His things are the Father's, and that all the Father's things are His [John xvii 10]. Thence it is that the Lord is God, even as to the flesh (Rom. ix 5; Coloss. ii 9); and that [He said],