Exodus 1:5

Exo 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

Ver. 5. And all the souls. ] That is, persons; for souls are not begotten, but infused, being divinae particulae aurae. Ecc 12:7 Aristotle himself saw and acknowledged as much. a

Were seventy souls. ] More worth than the seventy nations of the whole world, say the Jews: God reckons of men by their righteousness.

a λειπεται, τον νουν μονον θυραθεν επειστεναι και θειον ειναι . - De Gene. Ar., lib. ii. cap. 9.