from your Spirit?” (139:7). This is not the purely immanent spirit or world-soul of the Stoics. The OT simply asserts that the Spirit of God sustains all life. This will become clearer when we consider Paul on this subject. We considered numerous passages under our section (2) above. These included “the breath of life” in Gen. 2:7; Ps. 104:29–30; and Ezek. 34–39, which concerns national renewal and revival: “I will cause rûaḥ to enter you, and you shall live” (Ezek. 37:5). (9) It goes almost without
Page 12