And Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, "It is finished." The three Evangelists all dwell upon the loudness of the cry, as it had been the triumphant note of a conqueror.

and gave up the ghost saying, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," and then all was over. The Lord of life hung lifeless upon the Cross. "There may be something intentional in the fact that in describing the death of Christ the Evangelists do not use the neuter verb, -He died," but the phrases, - He gave up the ghost" (Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46; John 19:30); - He yielded up the ghost" (Matthew 27:50); as though they would imply with St Augustine that He gave up His life, - quia voluit, quando voluit, quomodo voluit." Comp. John 10:18." Farrar, life, ii p. 418 n.

the ghost Ghost, from A. S. gâst, G. geist, = spirit, breath, opposed to body. "The word has now acquired a kind of hallowed use, and is applied to one Spirit only, but was once common." Bible Word-Book, p. 224. Compare (a) Wyclif's translation here, "deiede or sente out the breth;" (b) "ghostly dangers" (spiritual dangers), "our ghostlyenemy" (sour spiritual enemy), in the Catechism; (c) Bishop Andrewes" Sermons, ii. 340, "Ye see then that it is worth the while to confess this [that Jesus is the Lord], as it should be confessed. In this sense none can do it but by the Holy Ghost. Otherwise, for an ore tenusonly, our own ghostwill serve well enough." Bible English, p. 265.

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