mous heart, a timid heart, a glad heart, a sorrowful heart, a soft heart, a hard heart, a great heart, a little heart, a sound heart, a broken heart, fleshy heart, a stony heart, and to call a man fat-hearted, soft-hearted, vile-hearted, and to say of another that he has no heart, and to talk of giving a heart to act, of giving one heart, of giving a new heart, of stirring up in the heart, of receiving in the heart, of not ascending upon the heart, of being obstinate in heart, of being lifted up in heart, of being friendly in heart, hence also we speak of concord (agreement in heart), of discord (disagreement in heart), and in the Latin tongue, of vecordia (madness of heart), with several like expressions. In the Word also throughout, by heart is signified the will or love, by reason that the Word is written by mere correspondences.
The soul or spirit of the lungs, which is the respiration, corresponds to the understanding. It is said in the Word, that man ought to love God with the whole heart and the whole soul, by which is signified that he ought to love with all the will and all the understanding; in like manner that God will create in man a new heart and a new spirit, where by heart is signified the will, and by spirit the understanding, because when man is regenerated, he is created anew. The nostrils also, from the correspondence of respiration through them, signify perception. An intelligent man is said to be quickscented, and a man not intelligent, of a fat and heavy nostril. The Lord breathed into the disciples, and said to them, "receive ye the Holy Spirit," (John xx. 22): by breathing into them was signified the intelligence which they were about to receive, and by the Holy Spirit is meant the divine wisdom, which teaches and illustrates man. This was done in order to show that the divine wisdom, which is meant by the Holy Spirit, proceeds from him. That soul and spirit are predicated of respiration, is also known from common discourse, for it is said of man, when he dies, that he emits the soul, and emits the spirit, inasmuch as he then ceases to have
