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my Saviour.” It is common in Scripture to predicate tliat 
of tlie soul winch is predicated of the spirit. In 1 Cor. xvi. 
17, 18, Paul says of Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, 
“ They refreshed my spirit and yours.” In 2 Cor. vii. 13, of 
Titus, he says his spirit was refreshed by them all. In Matt, 
xi. 28, the invitation of Christ is, “ Come unto me, all ye 
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” 
Kendered literally, it is, “ I will refresh you.” The word is 
the same which is used in the two former instances. But the 
question arises what is it which receives this refreshment ? 
It is the psyche, as the next verse shows : “ Take My yoke 
upon you, and learn of Me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart : 
and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” “ Best ” here is 
anajpausis , refreshment , from the verb anapauo, used, in the 
passages cited. That it is our spiritual nature which is sus- 
ceptible of divine refreshment, not our animal, it is not neces- 
sary to stop to prove. There is then obviously this spiritual 
nature in the psyche. 
19. If the spirit is the seat of sorrow and anguish, so is 
the soul. At the grave of Lazarus Jesus was troubled in 
spirit, and wept. After this, in the prospect of the cross, we 
hear Him say, “ How is My soul troubled.” Examples to this 
effect might be largely adduced. 
20. The highest functions of the spiritual nature are exer- 
cised by the soul. It prays to Giod : “ Unto Thee do I lift up 
my soul.” It praises God and blesses man : “ Bless the Lord, 
0 my soul.” The soul of Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. It 
exercises faith : “ My soul trusteth in Thee.” 
21. The spirit is the seat of intelligence : “For what man 
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is 
in him ? ” But man ; s “ rational soul ” is the seat of intelli- 
gence also : “ I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and 
wonderfully made : marvellous are Thy works : and that my 
soul knoweth right well” (Ps. cxxxix. 14). “ For the soul,” 
says Solomon, “ to be without knowledge it is not good.” 
22. “God is a Spirit”; yet in His infinitely pure essence 
there is soul. Thus in Matt. xii. 18, the Evangelist quotes the 
prophet Isaiah : “ Behold My servant whom I have chosen ; 
My beloved in whom My soul is well pleased.” Here the 
nephesh of the Old Testament is psyche in the Hew. In 
Hebrews x. 38 we read, “ How the just shall live by faith : 
but if he draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” 
It is a fair inference that, as in the Blessed God, soul and 
spirit are one essence, so are they in His creature man, made 
after His image. 
23. That breath of lives — nishmath chaiyim — which God 
breathed into man's nostrils, and which constituted him, in 
