Significant to the same purpose is the word, _theo-pneustos_ (_God breathed_), which describes the Scriptures as the dictate of the Spirit in the prophets. (2 Tim. iii, 16.) Turning now to another word,—says Dr. Alexander, “The word (_pheromenē_) translated rushing, is a passive participle, meaning _borne_, or _carried_, and is properly descriptive of involuntary motion, caused by a superior power; an idea not suggested by the active participles, _rushing_, _driving_, or the like; which seem to make the wind itself the operative agent.”[84] Compare 1 Peter i, 13,—“The grace that is to _be brought_ (_pheromenēn_) unto you;” and 2 Peter i, 21.—“Holy men spake as they (_pheromenoi_) _were moved_ by the Holy Ghost.” With these notes, let us compare that action of Jesus, in which he _breathed_ on his disciples, and said to them, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.”—John xx, 22. This we must understand as designed by him for an interpretation of Pentecost. It can mean nothing else. For not till then was the Spirit to be given. Footnote 84: Alexander on the Acts, _in loco_. The same figure is fully developed in the prophecy of Ezekiel (xxxvii, 1-14), of the valley of dry bones. “There were very many in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry.” At the divine command, Ezekiel prophesied to them,—“O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.... And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind.... Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.” The vision is interpreted to the prophet. “These bones are the whole house of Israel.... Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my Spirit in you and ye shall live.” Ezek. xxxvii, 1-14. Throughout this passage, the words, “wind,” “breath” and “Spirit,” are in the original the same (Hebrew, _ruāgh_, Greek, _pneuma_), and the word, “breathe,”—“Come from the four winds, O breath, and _breathe_ upon these slain,”—is the same that describes the action of the Lord Jesus, just referred to. If now, in the light of these illustrations, we return to the account of the Pentecostal scene, we read that “suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of an outbreathed, mighty breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.... And they were all