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PREFACE

SECTION I.

BODY AND SOUL.

ORIGINAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE SOUL, THE FORMER BEING MADE CORRUPTIBLE, THE LATTER INCORRUPTIBLE,  —  HENCE, AN ORIGINAL DIFFERENCE OF RELATION TO ENDLESS EXISTENCE, THE FORMER BEING, AND THE LATTER NOT BEING, ADAPTED TO THE SAME.  —  THIS ADAPTATION MADE MANIFEST BY THE PROPERTIES OF THE SOUL,

SECTION II.

DEATH AND LIFE.

NATURE OF DEATH, THE PENALTY OF SIN, AS INDICATED (1) BY THE NARRATIVE IN GENESIS; (2) BY THE USE OF THE TERM DEATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT; AND (3) BY THE USE OF ITS OPPOSITE, THE TERM LIFE, 

SECTION III.

THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.

PROOF OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE INTERMEDIATE STATE  —  (1) FROM THE WORDS OF CHRIST; (2) FROM THE WORDS OF PETER; (3) FROM THE WORDS OF PAUL; (4) FROM THE "WORDS OF CHRIST.  —  OBJECTIONS TO THIS —  (1) FROM SCRIPTURE; AND (2) FROM REASON.

SECTION IV.

THE FINAL STATE.

EXTRACTS FROM JOSEPHUS AND TACITUS.  —  TESTIMONY OF CHRIST AFTER HIS ASCENSION.  —  HIS TESTIMONY WHILE YET ON EARTH.  —  REPLY TO ANOTHER INTERPRETATION OF HIS LANGUAGE.

SECTION V.

BIBLICAL OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.

(1) "DEATH," THE EXTINCTION OF CONSCIOUS BEING.  —  THEORY OF HAM.  —  THEORY OF HUDSON.  —  (2) " DESTRUCTION," THE EXTINCTION OF CONSCIOUS BEING.  —  SUPPORTS OF THIS VIEW.  —  OBJECTIONS TO IT.

SECTION VI.

FURTHER OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.

(1) THE DEAD PRONOUNCED UNCONSCIOUS BY OLD TESTAMENT WRITERS.  —  REPLY TO THIS STATEMENT.  —  (2) THE LANGUAGE OF THE APOSTOLICAL FATHERS AND EARLY APOLOGISTS CONFIRMATORY OF THE PRECEDING OBJECTIONS.  —  THIS ASSUMPTION SHOWN TO BE INCORRECT.

SECTION VII.

RATIONAL OBJECTIONS.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.  —  OBJECTIONS (1) FROM THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD.  —  REPLY.  —  (2) FROM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.  —  REPLY.  —  (3) FROM THE BENEVOLENCE OF GOD.  — REPLY.  —  CONCLUSION.