Yes, and heaven sometimes means the firmament above our heads, where the birds fly.

But does it never mean more than this?
Paradise sometimes means the happy garden where Adam and Eve dwelt; but does it never mean more than that?
So, granting that spirit sometimes means breath, may it not also mean more than that?
"When Jesus said, 'Into thy hands I commend my spirit,' did he mean, 'Into thy hands I commend my breath'?
So, when the disciples saw Jesus walking on the water and cried out, 'It is a spirit,' did Jesus say to them, 'This is an old wives' fable; there is no such thing as a spirit'?
Did he not rather say to them,--'It is I; be not afraid.' So, also, when he appeared to them in a room, the doors being shut, and they cried out, 'It is a spirit,' he said to them, 'Handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.' In all this Jesus encouraged the disciples to hold the idea which was then popular among the Jews, that the spirit may exist apart from the body, and after the body is dead." I thus discoursed to them for one hour in development of the Bible teachings concerning human spirits; and in my turn ridiculed the persons that had ridiculed the ideas that had evidently been held by Jesus and the apostles.
Mrs.Chapman had always invited objections; but she was sure to make an endless talk over them.

I said, "We will not have an endless confabulation to-night; but I will quote one passage of Scripture, and on that I will rest my case.

Any other person may then quote one passage of Scripture and on that rest the case.

I have preached one sermon; the other party has preached twenty.