Some preliminaries: First of all the biblical concepts of “flesh” and “spirit”; these are not identical with “body” and “soul” in our common parlance, as we noted in the introductory chapter. “Flesh” is the whole human person under the aspect of weakness, as opposed to “spirit,” which can mean either the life-giving breath within us or a supernatural power given to some in definite circumstances. The Hebrew ruach, the Greek pneuma, and the Latin spiritus can all mean “wind,” an invisible power that