{Yielded up his spirit} (aph(886b)en to pneuma). The loud cry
may have been Ps 31:5 as given in Lu 23:46 : "Father, into thy
hands I commend my spirit." John ( Joh 19:30 ) gives {It is
finished} ( etelestai), though which was actually last is not
clear. Jesus did not die from slow exhaustion, but with a loud
cry. {He breathed out} (exepneusen, Mr 15:37 ), {sent back his
spirit} ( Mt 27:50 ), {gave up his spirit} (pared(936b)en to
pneuma, Joh 19:30 ). "He gave up his life because he willed it,
when he willed it, and as he willed it" (Augustine). Stroud
(_Physical Cause of the Death of Christ_) considers the loud cry
one of the proofs that Jesus died of a ruptured heart as a result
of bearing the sin of the world.
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