Reference: Pre-existence of Souls
Hastings
'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.'
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And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If it is so, why am I this way? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.
And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written, the days they were formed, and not one was among them.
then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
And it happened as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. read more. And from where is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For lo, as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created.