The Perishing Soul PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. REMARKS ON "THBEE LETTERS ON FUTUBE PUNISHMENT." BY DR. JOSEPH ANGUS.1 I Need not say of what importance it must be to consider what has been so lately said on the other side of our question by one so 'well worthy of being heard.2 I must confine myself, however, to what may fairly be regarded as his strongest points. (a) Let. i. 6.--The duration of punishment. The passage concludes thus--" Every form of words employed in Scripture to describe everlastingness our Lord and His Apostles employ to describe the state of those who die in sin and unbelief." This, I answer, might be true enough, without at all involving endless suffering. For, if the 'destruction' that is so often threatened implies a real extinction of being, 1 See Christian World, April 1-15, 1870. 2 The first letter opens with a reference to Justin Martyr, "who held," it is said, "that common men are composed of only two parts, hody and soul, while Christian men have a third--the spirit--just as now the doctrine is taught by Delitsch, and Mr. Heard, and Mr. White." Now, as Justin's opinions on such a subject are not a matter of indifference to us, I beg to refer to the quotation at p. 196 supra, where those who lose their soul are spoken of as having had a spirit. So in his Fragment on the Resurrection, c. 10, he tells in whose case "these three shall be saved." S and is truly a 'punishment, ' then no expression can be excessive for marking the period of such punishment. But, in fact, the strong statement now quoted is seriously wanting in accuracy. In three consecutive paragraphs Dr. Angus refers to the three expressions eis aiona, eis tous aionas ton aionon, and aionios; and then, after giving examples of each, he thus writes in the sentence immediately preceding...