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Act 23:8. Μήτε πνεῦμα, nor spirit) Spirit, as opposed to angel, means here the spirit of a man who is dead: comp. note on Act 23:9; Mat 14:2; Luk 24:37.-ὁμολογοῦσι) acknowledge, confess.-τὰ ἀμφότερα, both) One of these two points is the resurrection; the other is, angels and other spirits. The difference of the particles μηδὲ, μήτε, but not, and not, is in consonance with this view, of which the former imparts an adversative, the latter a copulative force to the negation [i.e. μηδὲ connects adversatively μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν with the clause ἄγγελον μήτε πνεῦμα, joined by the copula μήτε].