Two Men in One

In principio verborum Moysi, ubi de mundi conditione conscribitur, duos invenimus homines creatas referri. Primum ad imaginem et similitudinem Dei factim, secundum e limo terrae factum. Hoc Paulus apostolus bene sciens, et ad liquidum in his eruditis, in suis litteris apertius et evidentius binos esse et per singulos, quosque homines scripsit. Sic enim dixit: 'Nam si is qui foris est homo noster corrumpitur, sed ille qui intus est, renovatur de die in diem'. Et iterum: 'Condelector enim legi Dei secundum interiorem hominem,' et his similia quanta conscribit?' Unde puto neminem jam debere dubitare quod Moyses de duorum hominum factura vel figmento scripserit in principio Genesis, eum videat Paulum qui malius utique quam nos intelligebat ea quae a Moyse scripta sunt, duos homines esse per singulos quosque dicentem. Quorum unum, id est interiorem, renovari per singulos dies memorat; alterum veri, id est exteriorem, in quibusdam sanctis et talibus qualis erat Paulus, corrumpi perhibet et infirmari. Origenes, In Canticum Canticorum, Prologus, Interprete Rufino Aquileiense

In the beginning of the words of Moses, when he writes about the creation of the world, we find reference to the creation of two men. The first is made to 'an image and likeness of God' and the second 'from the mud of the earth.' 1 Paul the Apostle knowing this well, clearly educated in these things, wrote in his letters most openly about these two men in each man. He says, ' For if our outer man is corrupted, yet the inward is renewed from day to day.' 2 And again, ' I am delighted with the law of God according to the inner man,' 3 And how many things does he write like this?  Thus I think that no one should now doubt what Moses wrote in the beginning of Genesis about the making and shaping of two men, but let him look to Paul, who understood what Moses wrote better than we do, saying that there are two men in each man. Of these the one man, that is the interior, he mentions as renewed from day to day, the other, that is the exterior, in all the saints, as it was in Paul, he regards as corrupted and infirm.  Origen, Commentary On the Song of Songs, Prologue, Translated by Rufinus of Aquileia .  1 Gen 1.26, 2.7 2 2 Cor 4.16 3 Rom 7.22