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What does “kill the body but cannot kill the soul” mean? (Matthew 10:28)

Answered by . September 27, 2017 - 10:13 pm

A contradiction with the Old Testament? Most readers finding Matthew 10:28 strange will probably already be in aware that in the Old Testament souls can die and be killed. Sometimes it is not clear from English translations where ‘soul’ (Hebrew nephesh) in phrases such as “all the souls died”, killing “souls” with the sword, and so […]