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“For most Bible readers Ezekiel is almost a closed book,” writes John Taylor. “Their knowledge of him extends little further than his mysterious vision of God’s chariot-throne, with its wheels within wheels, and the vision of the valley of the dry bones.” “Otherwise his book is as forbidding in its size as the prophet himself is in the complexity of his make-up,” Taylor goes on. “In its...

consistently in this passage. It is the same word that lies behind the double meaning of wind and Spirit in John 3:8. At its root rûaḥ denotes the sense of ‘air in motion’, i.e. wind or breath. This can extend from a gentle breeze to a stormy wind, or from a breath that is breathed to a raging passion. It comes to mean both man’s spirit, or disposition, and also emotional qualities like vigour, courage, impatience and ecstasy. It covers not only man’s vital breath, given to him at birth and leaving
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