powerful illustration, rich with meaning—because the Holy Spirit is pictured in Ezekiel 37:9–14 as God’s breath. So the gesture was an emphatic affirmation of Christ’s deity, making His own breath emblematic of the breath of God. It was also reminiscent of the way God first “breathed into [Adam’s] nostrils the breath of life” (Gen. 2:7)—thus picturing the impartation of new life through regeneration (the second birth), which under the new covenant is always accompanied by the impartation of the Spirit