The following is from Elias Smith's New Testament Dictionary: "SOUL, signifies, 1 The man Adam. 1 Cor. xv, 45, 'And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a LIVING SOUL.' Gen. ii, 7, 'And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.' 2. It signifies men in general. Acts ii, 43; xxvii, 37; Rom. xiii, 1; 1 Pet. iii, 20. Wicked men are called unstable souls. 2 Pet. ii, 14. We read of souls slain for the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus. Rev. vi, 9. These were men. 3. The word soul signifies the mind, or all the powers of the man. Acts iv, 32; Heb. iv 12; vi, 19, 2 Pet. ii, 8; Acts xiv, 22; xv, 24; 1 Pet. i, 22. 4. The word signifies the life. Soul, and body, is the same as the life and body. Jesus Christ considered the life and soul to be the same. Matt. xvi, 25, 26. First he says, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.' Here he mentions the life; in the next verse he calls it the soul. 'For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?' This is the same as losing his life. In one place he speaks of the life and body. 'Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?' Matt. vi, 25. In another he mentions the soul and body. Matt. x, 28, 'And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.' This is the account of the soul in the New Testament. It is the life of the man, and that which can die; and the soul and body of the wicked will be destroyed in hell, unless they repent. 'The soul that sinneth, it shall die.' Eze. xviii, 4. What is said of the immortal soul, the never dying soul, &c., is unscriptural. There is no such thing mentioned or intimated in all the Scriptures of truth. The reader has here what the Scriptures saith; I dare not add, nor diminish."