10.  After  He  had  said,  "these  doeth,"  why  did  He  add,
"  in  like  manner  doeth  "  ?  Lest  another  distorted  understand-
ing or  error  should  spring  up  in  the  mind.  Thou  seest,  for
instance,  a  man's  work :  in  man  there  is  mind  and  body ;  the
mind  rules  the  body,  but  there  is  a  great  difference  between
body  and  mind  :  the  body  is  visible,  the  mind  is  invisible  :
there  is  a  great  difference  between  the  power  and  virtue  of  the
mind  and  that  of  any  kind  of  body  whatever,  be  it  even  a
heavenly  body.  Still  the  mind  rules  its  own  body,  and  the
body  doeth ;  and  what  the  mind  appears  to  do,  this  the  body
doeth  also.  Thus  the  body  appears  to  do  this  same  thing
that  the  mind  doeth,  but  not  "  in  like  manner."  How  doeth
this  same,  but  not  in  like  manner  ?  The  mind  frames  a  word
in  itself ;  it  commands  the  tongue,  and  the  tongue  produces  the
word  which  the  mind  framed :  the  mind  made,  and  the  tongue


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made  ;  the  lord  of  the  body  made,  and  the  servant  made  ;  but
that  the  servant  might  make,  it  received  of  its  lord  what  to
make,  and  made  while  the  lord  commanded.  The  same  thing-
was  made  by  both,  but  was  it  in  like  manner  ?  How  not  in
like  manner  ?  says  some  one.  See,  the  word  that  my  mind
formed,  remains  in  me ;  that  which  my  tongue  made,  passed
through  the  smitten  air,  and  is  not.  When  thou  hast  said  a
word  in  thy  mind,  and  uttered  it  by  thy  tongue,  return  to  thy
mind,  and  see  that  the  word  which  thou  hast  made  is  there
still.  Has  it  remained  on  thy  tongue,  just  as  it  has  in  thy
mind  ?  What  was  uttered  by  the  tongue,  the  tongue  made  by
sounding,  the  mind  made  by  thinking ;  but  what  the  tongue
uttered  has  passed  away,  what  the  mind  thought  remains.
