The normal pronoun to use with spirit would be it. But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not when it, but when he.

The Applause he met with exceeds all belief of the Absent.

Gaunilo's point was that if the argument was a good one, it could just as easily be used to prove the existence of a Greatest Conceivable Island. After all, a GCI has all possible islandly perfections, such as maximally white sand, perfect surfing waves, delicious coconuts, and so forth.

The scrawny patroler of Hall Township was called “Cracklin’ Jack” Parker, and the large muscular fellow of the Bear Garden area near Sarem in Reynoldson Township, “Bear Garden Jack” Parker.