Bible Dictionary: The Wind: Purifying Nature of

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Job 37:21
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleans them.
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Jeremiah 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
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Library

The Baptism of the Spirit
... The courses of the wind are to be discerned by the effects ... make Divine things real
to you, but as a purifying flame He must change your nature, purging away ...
/.../howard/standards of life and service/xiii the baptism of the.htm

A Description of Heart-Purity
... (i) To fire (Acts 2:3). Fire is of a purifying nature. It refines and cleans metals. ...
It burns up the dross of sin. (ii) The Spirit is compared to wind. ...
/.../16 a description of heart-purity.htm

Some Gospel Truths Opened, According to the Scriptures; Or, the ...
... attain the more true holiness and purity of heart and life, 'purifying their hearts
by ... yet dwelleth within them, that is, something of his divine nature or his ...
/.../the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/some gospel truths opened according.htm

The Second Theological Oration.
... Or what compression of wind having no outlet will account to you for the ... a creature
of the intellectual sphere; Fire, as being of a purifying nature; for I ...
/.../lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxviii the second theological.htm

The Holy Spirit and the one Church
... After the Spirit, like the wind, has made the dead ... It is purifying, but it purifies
by a terrible process ... which discovers the wickedness of our nature, and the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the holy spirit and the.htm

Of the Life and Miracles of Jesus, and Testimonies Concerning Them ...
... is, by the pouring forth [660] of the purifying dew. ... aroused from sleep, He immediately
ordered the wind to be ... [659] Not of His own flesh, but of human nature. ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xv of the life and.htm

The Fourfold Symbols of the Spirit
... as the ships are borne along by the wind?' 'As many ... The metaphor of fire suggests
also"purifying. ... my spirit, will still and satisfy my whole nature, and with ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the fourfold symbols of the.htm

The New Birth
... of the fact, as of the blowing of the wind; but the ... But they must reign till the
bent of our nature is changed ... the one being an act of man, purifying the body ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 45 the new birth.htm

Entire Sanctification as Taught by John.
... Nicodemus, both as to its necessity and its nature. ... may be as inexplicable as the
wind, which bloweth ... on the day of Pentecost, namely, the purifying of their ...
/.../clark/the theology of holiness/chapter ix entire sanctification as.htm

The Withering Work of the Spirit
... know, is used in the Hebrew both for "wind" and "Spirit ... it is; it is not the old
nature putting out ... parts; not the old Adam refining and purifying itself, and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the withering work of the.htm

Subtopics

The Wind of False Doctrines

The Wind of Iniquity Which Leads to Destruction

The Wind of Molten Images

The Wind of Terrors Which Pursue the Soul

The Wind of the Life of Man

The Wind of the Operations of the Holy Spirit

The Wind of the Speeches of the Desperate

The Wind: (Bringing Forth) of Disappointed Expectations

The Wind: (Chaff or Stubble Before) of the Wicked

The Wind: (Feeding Upon) of Vain Hopes

The Wind: (Sowing) a Course of Sin