St. Maximus the Confessor held that from the beginning man is constituted of soul and body, for from the beginning he is man-the-hypostasis, constituted of both. No part whatsoever of man-the-hypostasis comes into existence at some later point, for this would transform both elements when they are united, and man would not be man before their union. ... At the beginning through creation, and afterwards through birth and by the will of God, the soul and body come into existence simultaneously as a unity, not as a unity of substance, but as a unity formed of both elements. -Fr. Dumitru Staniloae, The Experience of God vol. 2, The World: Creation and Deification
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