49. iii. That by "spirit" is meant the life of one who is regenerate, which is called spiritual life:
Jesus said, Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (John 3:5).
I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit. I will put My spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes (Ezek. 36:26, 27).
To give a new heart and a new spirit (Ezek. 11:19).
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me (Ps. 51:10, 12).
Make you a new heart, and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel (Ezek. 18:31).
Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created, and Thou renewest the faces of the earth (Ps. 104:30).
The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth (John 4:23).
Jehovah God giveth breath [animam] to the people, and spirit to them that walk therein (Isa. 42:5).
Jehovah formeth the spirit of man in the midst of him (Zech. 12:1).
With my soul have I awaited Thee in the night; with my spirit in the midst of me have I awaited Thee in the morning (Isa. 26:9).
In that day shall Jehovah be for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment (Isa. 28:5, 6).
My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior (Luke 1:47).
They have quieted my spirit in the land of the north (Zech. 6:8).
Into Thy hand I commend my spirit; Thou hast redeemed me (Ps. 31:5).
Did not He make one, and the rest in whom was spirit? (Mal. 2:15).
After three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into the two witnesses that had been killed by the beast (Rev. 11:11).
I Jehovah the former of the mountains, and the creator of the wind [spiritus] (Amos 4:13).
O God, the God of the spirits as to all flesh (Num. 16:22; 27:18).
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem, the spirit from on high (Zech. 12:10).
Until He hath poured upon us the spirit from on high (Isa. 22:15).
I will pour waters upon him that is thirsty, and brooks upon the dry [ground], I will pour My spirit upon thy seed (Isa. 44:3).
I will pour My spirit upon all flesh, also upon the servants and the handmaids in those days will I pour out My spirit (Joel 2:28, 29). (To pour out the spirit means to regenerate; as does also to give a new heart and a new spirit.)
[2] That by "spirit" is meant spiritual life in those who are in humiliation:
I dwell in a contrite and humble spirit, and to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones (Isa. 57:15).
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise (Ps. 51:17).
He will give the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness (Isa. 61:3).
A woman forsaken and grieved in spirit (Isa. 54:6).
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matt. 5:3).