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again, at the 38th verse of the 10th chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews : — 
“ Now the just shall live by faith ; but if any man draw back, my soul shall 
have no pleasure in him.” There, again, is Psyche in reference to God. 
Mr. Row. — A quotation from the Septuagint. 
Mr. Graham. — Well, be it so ; I say that here you have “soul” used in 
the New Testament in relation to God in two passages. I will now, for a 
few moments, invite attention to one or two other matters. First, in reference 
to the title “ Lord of Hosts,” in his 3rd section, Mr. English says : — 
“I will here give an illustration of this from the different names applied 
to God. In the Pentateuch, in Joshua and Judges, we never meet with the 
title ‘the Lord of Hosts’; but in the books of Samuel, Chronicles, and 
throughout the rest of the books of the Old Testament, it occurs frequently.” 
Yes, but you meet in Exodus with “ the hosts of the Lord ” going out of 
Egypt. But does the phrase occur in Ezekiel, in Job, or in any of the 
books written by Solomon, in Proverbs, in Ecclesiastes ? It does not occur 
in any of these. Mr. English uses it tropically ; but before you can have a 
tropical use, you must have a literal use. Then there is another passage 
in the same section to which I would call attention : — 
“ But just as the Church came in contact with what remained that was 
good of the world’s religion, she took up, as wisdom itself would have 
directed, the terms of that remnant, and made them her own.” 
I should prefer saying it was the spirit of inspiration that took them up. It 
is not the Church that gives us the Bible, but God. 
The Chairman. — Mr. English does not mean the Church in that limited 
sense — he would not differ from you as regards that. He means rather that 
the language was adopted by the Holy Spirit. 
Mr. Graham. — Well, I should prefer to see it otherwise put. Then he 
says : — 
“ The priest of the older religion was ‘ Priest of the Most High God.’ The 
earlier Canaanites were of course familiar with this title ; and hence, as they 
came upon the scene it reappears.” 
Mr. English regards the title “ Most High God ” as originating in the idea of 
distance, “ one far off”; but I take it that in the Scripture it refers to 
Jehovah as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, above all potentates and autho- 
rities of the earth. But I will not dwell on these points. I come now to 
the close of the 7th section : — 
“ ‘.Nephesh,’ soul, is not uniformly employed in the same sense, but the 
soul is not therefore confounded with either the spirit or the body of man. 
Nephesh ’ means, in the earlier books, a bodily organism, a living frame.” 
In fact it means the entire man, and, as meaning the entire man, it embraces 
the ruach. But is it true that in the earlier books it is used merely in 
relation to organic man ? Do we not read that “ as the soul of Rachel was 
departing” ? Do we not also find Jacob saying : “ 0 my soul (my nephesh ), 
