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In summary, the writer says that what the soul is in the body, Christians are in the world.
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The soul is spread through all the body's members, and Christians are scattered through the cities of the world.
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The soul dwells in the body but does not come from the body; Christians dwell in the world but are not described as deriving their identity from the world.
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The soul is invisible while guarded inside a visible body; Christian reverence likewise remains inward while Christians are visibly present.
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The flesh opposes the soul because the soul restrains bodily pleasures; the world, according to the writer, hates Christians because they oppose its disordered pleasures.
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Yet the soul loves the flesh that resists it; Christians likewise love those who hate them.
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The soul is enclosed by the body yet holds the body together; Christians are described as confined within the world yet functioning as a force that holds it together.
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The soul is described as immortal within a mortal dwelling; Christians live among things that decay while waiting for incorruption in the heavens.
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The soul grows stronger when bodily appetite is disciplined; Christians, the writer says, multiply even when punished.
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This is the station assigned to them by Elohim, and the author says they cannot simply abandon it.