flesh
and
spirit
in the Gospel of St. John, who thought in Hebrew, though he wrote in Greek, favours our common version,—
flesh and not spirit
: but the place in which this passage stands, namely, in one of the first forty chapters of Isaiah, and therefore written long before the Captivity, together with the majestic simplicity characteristic of Isaiah's name gives perhaps a greater probability to the other:
Egypt is man, and not God; and her horses flesh, and not wind
. If Mr. Oxlee renders the fourth verse of Psalm civ.—
He maketh spirits his messengers
, (for our version—