I. MAN'S FORMATION IS ENTIRELY OF THE EARTH.
"Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." Gen.3:19; 2:7; 18:27; Job 10:9; 34:15; Ps.103:14; Eccl.3:20; 12:7: Isa.64:8;
1Cor.15:47.
II. HE IS MADE ALIVE BY BREATH, OR SPIRIT.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and MAN became a living soul." Gen.2:7; 7:22; [Heb. breath of the spirit of life]; Job 12:10; 27:3; 33:4; Isa.2:22; 38 42:5; Eze.37:5,6,8,9,10; Acts 17:25; James 2:26; [margin, breath].
III. MAN IS MORTAL.
"Shall mortal man be more just than God?" Job 4:17.
---GOD ALONE IS IMMORTAL.
"Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto." 1Tim.6:16; 1:17. "Life and immortality are brought to light [made clear, Macknight], through the gospel." 2Tim.1:10."
Uriah Smith