The Sound of Wind: Symbol Without Substance

At Pentecost, the disciples heard 'a sound as of wind'—yet Maclaren draws a crucial distinction that arrests the imagination: Luke's language carefully distinguishes between the phonē (sound) and actual wind. No air rushed through the chamber. No hair on any cheek was lifted. No face felt the blow of tempest. What filled the house was the sound of rushing, not the substance.…