Man’s Nature and Destiny

PSUCHE DEFINED

Greenfield gives to psuche the following definition: “Breath; life, Luke 12:19, 20: Acts 20:10; life, i.e., the state of being alive, existence, (spoken of natural life), Matthew 2:20; 6:25; and by implication of life as extending beyond the grave: Matthew 10:39; John 12:25; by metonymy, that which has life, a living creature, living being, 1 Corinthians 15:45; spoken of a man, person, individual, Acts 2:41.” MND 47.3

Bagster’s Analytical Greek Lexicon gives substantially the same definition, as follows:- MND 47.4

“Breath: the principle of animal life; the life, Matthew 2:20; an inanimate being, 1 Corinthians 15:45; a human individual, soul, Acts 2:41; the immaterial soul, Matthew 10:28; the soul as the seat of religious and moral sentiment, Matthew 11:29; the soul as a seat of feeling, Matthew 12:18; the soul, the inner self, Luke 12:19.” MND 48.1