1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| John 3:8 | The Spirit breatheth where he will, and thou hearest his voice; *but thou knowest not whence he cometh, nor whither he goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Psalm 134:7. | The Spirit breatheth where he will. The Protestant translation has the wind: and so it is expounded by St. Chrysostom and St. 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 St. Augustine, St. Ambrose and St. Gregory, understand this expression of the Holy Ghost, of whom it can only be properly said, that he breatheth where he will. (Witham) |