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The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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Verse 8. The Spirit breatheth where he will. The Prot. translation has the wind: and so it is expounded by Saint John Chrysostom and S. Cyril on this verse; as if Christ compared the motions of the Holy Ghost to the wind, of which men can give so little account, whence it comes, or whither it goes. Yet many others, as Saint Augustine Saint Ambrose Saint Gregory understand this expression of the Holy Ghost, of whom it can only be properly said, that he breatheth where he will. Witham.
The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit.
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