Hello,
I've been doing a study on body, soul and spirit and among many interesting things I've found are these scriptures.
Lev 21:11 (CLV)
nor to any
dead soul shall he enter; even for his father or for his mother he shall not defile himself.
Num 6:6 (CLV)
All the days of his sequestration to Yahweh he shall not come near a
dead soul.
Num 6:11 (CLV)
The priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for an ascent offering, and he will make a propitiatory shelter over him because of that which he had sinned concerning the
dead soul. Then he will hallow his head on that day.
I did not realize a soul could be dead until seeing these.
Also in the NT the Greek noun for soul is psuchē (strongs # G5590). What I found interesting is the adjective form of the word psuchikos (strongs # G5591). It only appears 7 times in the NT. Check out its occurrences from the KJV and then from the CLV. The KJV hides it.
1Co 2:14 (KJV)
But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:14 (CLV)
Now the
soulish man is not receiving those things which are of the spirit of God, for they are stupidity to him, and he is not able to know them, seeing that they are spiritually examined."
1Co 15:44 (KJV)
It is sown a
natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:44 (CLV)
It is sown a
soulish body; it is roused a spiritual body. If there is a
soulish body, there is a spiritual also.
1Co 15:46 (KJV)
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:46 (CLV)
But not first the spiritual, but the
soulish, thereupon the spiritual."
Jam 3:15 (KJV)
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish.
Jam 3:15 (CLV)
This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but terrestrial,
soulish, demoniacal. "
Jud 1:19 (KJV)
These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the Spirit.
Jud 1:19 (CLV)
These are those who isolate themselves,
soulish, not having the spirit."
I just found it very interesting how the "soulish" seems to be connected with the physical/flesh.
Deedle