used a good many times for "enemy," but there is another word that looks exactly the same, which can mean And so, he shall come in like a river, “narrow.” “when its either an enemy or narrow, which can be an adjective describing the river. Adjectives usually follow nouns in Hebrew. Even so, do we have he shall “when come like a narrow or an enemy shall come like a river,” “when river?” Both translations are equally possible. Spirit of the Lord [51:46 ] And then the word Do we have the phrase, "the Spirit of the Lord “Spirit.” will lift up a banner against or the phrase, the wind of the Lord him,” “which Now, the word is used before the word "Lord" in the New drives?” “spirit” Testament over and over, and this is the case in the Old Testament a good many times, as well. So it seems to me more reasonable to take this here as the “Spirit of the than the of the I think the RSV and modern translations Lord” “wind Lord.” translate it as a I do not quite see that wind of the has “mighty wind.” “the Lord” relevance in this particular passage. It is unfortunate that in Hebrew this same word can mean either or or And it is used a good many “spirit” “wind” “breath.” times for two of these meanings: either as "wind" or as "spirit." It is translated as 230 times in the Old Testament, 28 times, and times. “spirit” “breath” “wind” 90 So you see that leaves you with a difficult choice to make. Now one place in the Old Testament where it says that, Lord will destroy antichrist with the breath “The of his in the New Testament in the King James it says, Lord will mouth,” “the destroy him [antichrist] with the spirit of his and you would think that mouth” breath would make more sense there. But in the New Testament the corresponding word is generally translated But there is one “pneuma” “spirit.” case where it is translated and one case where it is translated "wind". And it “life” seems to me the of the makes more sense than of the “breath mouth” “spirit in this case. But you see you have that same ambiguity in this word in mouth”
used a good many times for "enemy," but there is another word that looks exactly the same, which can mean “narrow.” And so, “when he shall come in like a river, its either an enemy or narrow, which can be an adjective describing the river. Adjectives usually follow nouns in Hebrew. Even so, do we have “when he shall come like a narrow river,” or “when an enemy shall come like a river?” Both translations are equally possible. Spirit of the Lord [51:46 ] And then the word “Spirit.” Do we have the phrase, "the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a banner against him,” or the phrase, “which the wind of the Lord drives?” Now, the word “spirit” is used before the word "Lord" in the New Testament over and over, and this is the case in the Old Testament a good many times, as well. So it seems to me more reasonable to take this here as the “Spirit of the Lord” than the “wind of the Lord.” I think the RSV and modern translations translate it as a “mighty wind.” I do not quite see that “the wind of the Lord” has relevance in this particular passage. It is unfortunate that in Hebrew this same word can mean either “spirit” or “wind” or “breath.” And it is used a good many times for two of these meanings: either as "wind" or as "spirit." It is translated as “spirit” 230 times in the Old Testament, “breath” 28 times, and “wind” 90 times. So you see that leaves you with a difficult choice to make. Now one place in the Old Testament where it says that, “The Lord will destroy antichrist with the breath of his mouth,” in the New Testament in the King James it says, “the Lord will destroy him [antichrist] with the spirit of his mouth” and you would think that breath would make more sense there. But in the New Testament the corresponding word “pneuma” is generally translated “spirit.” But there is one case where it is translated “life” and one case where it is translated "wind". And it seems to me the “breath of the mouth” makes more sense than “spirit of the mouth” in this case. But you see you have that same ambiguity in this word in