Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ing the scriptures, to serve a purpose, to understand the word resurrection literally, and make the very next word, ' life,' a metaphor. Our Lord teaches that he would raise the dead, and make them live again ; and that if any who had believed were already dead, he would nevertheless raise them to life; while of the then living who believed and who must of course taste of death, it was a glorious fact that their death, not being final, was not strictly speaking deserving of the name, for that they should live for ever. This seems to me the general sentiment of these verses; which are adduced here in support of the idea that life, literally understood, is made the matter of distinct declaration and promise by Christ. For in this passage it will not do to spiritualise the words, ' life, ' and ' he shall live, ' ' dead, ' and ' shall not die for ever, ' [oi [ty inoOdp-ri elg Tap ad toya] seeing there was no question mooted about spiritual death and life, nor about misery and happiness. And to engraft these ideas would be not only gratuitous, but would spoil the beautiful propriety of our Lord's discourse on that sorrowful occasion, and make it altogether irrelevant. And if the life here promised could possibly mean happiness, then, according to the principles laid down by the Eclectic Reviewer, and already referred to, since Christ is the resurrection to all men, and the assertion, 'I am the resurrection and the life, ' is made generally and without discriminating any, all who are raised from the dead by Christ will also be made eternally happy by him! a conclusion which none will allow to be deduced from this text . I submit, then, that we must understand the terms in this passage literally. But here it will doubtless occur to the rea'der, that if the spiritualisi...
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