Now the soul and the spirit are certainly a part of the man, but certainly not the man; for the whole man consists in the commingling and union of the soul receiving the spirit...and the admixture of the fleshly nature....For that flesh which has been moulded is not a perfect man in itself, but the body of a man and a part of a man. Neither is the soul itself...the man, but the soul of a man, a part of a man. (St Irenae of Lyons, Against Heresies, Bk.4, 6:1)
But though the soul be immortal [by grace], yet it [alone] is not the person. (St Titus of Bostra, Against the Manicheans, Homily 1 - PG 96:489B)
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