The word psyche was very common in the ancient world and carried a variety of meanings. Despite its frequency both in later Christianity and (for instance) in Buddhism, the New Testament doesn’t use it to describe, so to speak, the bit of you that will ultimately be saved. The word psyche seems here to refer, like the Hebrew nephesh, not to a disembodied inner part of the human being but to what we might call the person or even the personality.
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