From Nave’s Topical Bible
Breath
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Commentary on Genesis 2:72 voices
Therefore the soul is not blood, because blood is of the flesh; nor is the soul a harmony, because harmony of this sort is also of the flesh; neither is the soul air, because blown breath is one thing and the soul something else. The soul is not fire, nor is the soul actuality, but the soul is living, for Adam "became a living soul," since the soul rules and gives life to the body, which is without life or feeling.
Ambrose of Milan· On Isaac and the Soul, 397Patristic
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 7:22
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Commentary on Genesis 7:221 voice
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life,.... Whether of fowls, beast, cattle, or creeping things: of all that was in the dry land, died; by which description fishes were excepted, since they breathe not, having no lungs, and are not on the dry land, where they cannot live, but in the waters. Some pretend it to be the opinion of some Jewish writers, that the fishes did die, the waters being made hot, and scalded them; but this fable I have not met with.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 22:16
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:161 voice
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. See Gill on Psa 18:15.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
Commentary on Job 4:92 voices
Even, as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap the same, by the blast of God do they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils are they consumed. To 'sow griefs' is to utter deceits, but to 'reap griefs' is to prevail by so speaking. Or, surely, they 'sow griefs,' who do froward actions, they 'reap griefs,' when they ate punished for this forwardness.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book V, 604Patristic
He carries this metaphor further in speaking about punishment. Corn fields usually dry up and are destroyed by a scorching wind. As Malachi says, "I will rebuke the devourer," i.e. the wind, "so that it may not devour the fruit of your land." (3:11) He …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Job, 1274Patristic
- Job 15:30
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Commentary on Job 15:301 voice
Ver. 30. He shall not depart out of darkness. If this proud man had been minded to turn back from sin to righteousness, he might 'depart out of darkness.' But because he seeks not the light of righteousness, he does not depart out of darkness. After whose example, those likewise, who 'attach themselves to him out breathe themselves in making earthly advancements, are kindled with the torches of avarice, and scorched with the fires of carnal desires. And hence it is added, The flame shall dry up his branches.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII, 604Patristic
- Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Commentary on Job 33:41 voice
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Intending to subjoin truth, he first uttered boastful words, and being about to state the sound opinions he held, he first made known how huge was his swelling. The minds of the arrogant are doubtless so very mad, that even in what they think rightly, they are disfigured by the deformity of their pride. And hence even their sound opinions do not instruct their hearers, because in truth they lead them by their haughty sentiments not to reverence but to despise them.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII, 604Patristic
- Job 37:10
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
Commentary on Job 37:101 voice
When God bloweth, the ice congeals. And the waters are again poured forth abundantly. Because, as the Holy Spirit breathed on the hearts of the faithful, and conferred greater miracles of power, benumbing envy grew up the more in the sluggish hearts of the faithless; and the unbelieving multitude became hardened against God, from the same causes, as the humble people softened the obduracy, with which it had bound itself.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII, 604Patristic
- Psalms 18:15
The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
Commentary on Psalms 18:151 voice
"And the fountains appeared." Here he treats of the generation of waters, which emanate from certain sources called springs, from which all generation of waters comes. Now these are generated in two ways. Sometimes from a customary and natural cause: just as vapors are raised …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Commentary on Psalms 33:61 voice
The rule of truth which we hold, is, that there is one God Almighty, who made all things by His Word, and fashioned and formed, out of that which had no existence, all things which exist. Thus saith the Scripture, to that effect "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens established, and all the might of them, by the spirit of His mouth." And again, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made."
Irenaeus· AGAINST HERESIES 1:22.1, 202Patristic
- Isaiah 30:33
For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Commentary on Isaiah 30:332 voices
(Verse 30 and following) And the Lord will cause the glory of His voice to be heard, and He will show the terror of His arm in the threat of His fury and the devouring flame of fire. He will strike with whirlwind and hailstones. At the voice of the Lord, Assyria will tremble, struck down like a virgin, and there will be a passage firmly established by the rod: which the Lord will cause to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in battles He will conquer them in principal places.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
688. For Topheth is prepared. Here he describes the place of punishment. And first, its disposition: Topheth, the valley of the son of Ennom, Gehenna, for the fire for sacrifices was kept there on stones of tufa (Tophis); this is the same as the valley …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
- Ezekiel 37:9
Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
Commentary on Ezekiel 37:92 voices
Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
In minute detail the holy prophet Ezekiel teaches and describes how strength will be restored to our dry bones, feeling return and motion added; how, with the return of sinews, the whole structure of the human body will grow strong, and how the driest bones will be clothed with restored flesh and the openings of the veins and the streams of the blood will be concealed by a veil of skin drawn tautly over them.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Death of Satyrus 2.69, 397Patristic
- Acts 17:25
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
Commentary on Acts 17:252 voices
"He does not require… He Himself giving to all life and breath and all things." Two proofs of Divinity, namely: that God needs nothing and grants all things to all. But here Paul also shows that God is not a father, but the Creator of …
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on Acts, 1107Patristic
Paul, in the Acts of the Apostles, is recorded to have said to the Areopagites, "I perceive that ye are more than ordinarily religious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with the inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 1, 215Patristic