Soul by G. | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1865

Soul.

By G.

The Hebrew word for soul is neh-phesh, and in the Old Testament has the following diversity of renderings:

It is translated, any—appetite—beast—body—breath—creature—dead—deadly—desire—discontented—fish—ghost—greedy—hath life—he—heart—hearty—her—herself—himself—life in jeopardy—jeopardy of life—life—lust—man—me—mind—mortally—myself—one—own—person—pleasure—self—slay—soul—tablet—themselves—they—thing—thyself—will—she will—would have it—yourselves.

Neh-phesh occurs eight hundred and seventy-three times, and is translated by every possible variety of terms except IMMORTAL SOUL OR DEATHLESS SPIRIT.

What do you think of this, gentle reader? Does it argue anything in your mind for the scriptural view latterly advocated? G.