I Once Breathed

Paul the Apostle said "I once breathed apart from the law's voice I lived in the clay of a singing bird or a roaring tamed beast I lived as a breath outside of the lion's roaring voice" Inspired by a quote from Basilides: "Indeed, the Apostle (Paul) has said, "I was once alive apart from the law," [Rom 7:9] at some time or other. That is (Paul means), before I came into this body, I lived in the kind of body that is not subject to the law: the body of a domestic animal or a bird."