Ioan Exarch Week Day 3

"For, as the scripture says, 'blood is the soul of every beast,' and blood, when it thickens, turns to flesh, flesh when it decays, becomes earth, so that the beast's soul is properly of the earth.  Hence, 'let the earth bring forth living creatures.' Consider the tie linking the beast's soul with blood, blood with flesh, and flesh with earth."

-Hexameron