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* e In the New Testament ; t believe , no instance occurs , in which a 7 TjaAAujxi or ' [ ky ^ l c £ 7 Tcv \ eicc . necessarily , require 16 ht tmderstocx $ of eternal death or , annihflatron , when they are applied to the future punishtrient of the wicked . "
AifuiXeicc ^ m the twenty passages where we meet with ^ it , has four leading significations : in seven places , it means death . py temporal destruction ; in twp wastey profusion ; in four , injury , hurty calamity ; and in the rest it is applied to the future life .
0 \ p 9 ' pos is fbupd in only four passages of / the Christian Scri p * tures . In I Cor . v . 5 . * it denotes some kind of mortification or pain , in 1 Tim . vi . Q > punishment * pre . Sent or futurt , or bothy in 1 Thess . v . 3 impending calamity , in 2 Thess . i . 9 , the highest degree of future punishment , in whatever it consist .
Those texts m the New Testament of which the word irvp makes part r are next placed befWe our eyes . To the enumeration of them many good observations of the writer ' s are annexed . He appears to coincide so far with the
advocates o ! what has been sfcyted the annihilation scheme as t ^ understand the metaphors in these passages not only of grievous
suffering , but , moi * eover , of destruction by death ; « ' the wicked , ' * he adds , «« are described as dying again after severe putiis-hment , in tbe world to conw . " 46 .
The origin and meaning of the t&rm yeeyyoc , are distinctly pointed out by this author : it seems more expressive of the severity than of the duration of future punishments ; a * any rate , it does not represent tnriir ataol itfe eternity . From an ? Mon . Rep . ¥ 6 L V . $ ss .
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induction of passages Mr . fi * c ^ otu clttdes ^ likewise , that the word A&jp ** has tioi relation to vicie or virtue , reward or punishment , but signifies merely ^ the state of t&cdeatTin general . ' * h \ +
He next investrgates the ? srnse of the words aTToSvijcrxa ; , &xvxro $ 9 § € vlepQ $ fixvotro ? . It is his judgment that * death does not convey the idea of an eternal suspension [ loss ] of life , or of total extra 6 *
lion of being . * ' The -second dealb , he tells us , c ; consists in I >«* &th himsekf and hades , or the state of theidead , and all whaare not written in the book of life , being cast
into the lake of fire ; which is figuratively saying that th ^ y shall be abolifked , or that there shall be aaejivel put to death , to the state of the dead , and to there being any who are not written in th& book of
life" ( 5 & ) . But how does this view of the matter accord with Rev . ii . 11 . ? - —with the as « iuraace 44 He that overcometh , shall not be hart of the . second death ! " In Mr .
S ' s- opinion , the secoiid death \ % an event most aniniating and glorious : agreeably to the Saviour ' s promise , recorded in the Ap ^ calypse it is a catastrophe singular
ly injurious and afflrctive ! We think that in Kcv * xx * 14 * the words the seca d death are synonymous with the lake of fire . If
the respectable author of these Essays , will turn lo the passage in Griesbach ' s last edition , he will perceive that wmie word ' s are adefed-f * to the verse , which give tbe whole clause ( he appearance
? l ^ ct this text be compared with Rev , jtx , 6- and * TJjsss . iv . % & . -f The ^ d ^ i tiap , updou ) b ( edlyf is suspicious : yet tta existence server to shevr the liglit in wlilcnthe ^ lliasc the s&Wfd death was viewed .
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R * yieW *—* 8 imp $ an * * Bs ? ay $ on the Language 6 f * Scripture ^ 6 QS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/45/
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