56. Therefore he referred the thunders to the words of the Lord, the sound of which went out into all the earth, and we understand the word “spirit” in this place of the soul, which He took endowed with reason and perfect; It has been generally held that our Lord’s Soul was from the first endowed with all the fulness of which a human soul is capable, having, for instance, perfect knowledge of all things past, present, and to come: the only limit being that a finite nature cannot possess the infinite attributes of the Godhead. for Scripture often designates the soul of man by the word spirit, as you read: “Who creates the spirit of man within him.” Zech. xii. 1. So, too, the Lord signified His Soul by the word Spirit, when He said: “Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit.” S. Luke xxiii. 46.