pneuma

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A favorite word of his is pneuma: “the breath of life,” in Greek, which he first learned in one of his religion classes.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

What further ballooned the President’s spirits amid the national conflict was the great pneuma of world solidarity.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015

Pisteuo eis to pneuma to hagion, hagian ekklesian, hagion koinonian, aphesin hamartion sarkos anastasin, zoen aionion, Amen.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

I think that they would have been impressed by the parallelisms in the sentence: kat� s�rka is parallel to kat� pneuma hagi�s�nes and ek sp�rmatos Dave�d is parallel to ex anastase�s nekr�n.

From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp