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i £ tbat they might confront each other ? 0 r , does he mean to say that detraction is correction , and correction , destruction ? He cites tie passages as referring to the same persons , to the * ame
circumstance , that of punmm > ent , and to the samp period . Now the latter passage expressly says that the destraClioM there m ntioned is punishment , and consequently
x , o ?< . avig , in the former passage ^ must . mean the same thing , or else the passages are in direct opposition to one another . To prove that KQ \ a < ri $ means correction no evidence whatever has been adduced ; that it means punishment
we have the clearest evidence iWm the use of the verb from which it is derived , which occurs in two passages , where it unquestionahly means to punish , the first is , Acts iv . 21 "So when they had farther threatened them , they let them go , finding nothing how they might punish them . " The
other 2 Pet . ii . 9 < "The " Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust unio the day of judgment to be punished . " Let us now see what sense , we can make of Dr . Estlin ' s rendering , and then judge whether it is possible to be the true
translation of the words , These shall go away into the correction of that period . " What going away into correction or chastisement can
iiijean , I confess I am not able to comprehend . And how llie Greek adjective aivuviov can with propriety be rendered , c * of that period /'
is equally incomprehensible . To ttito adj «<* tives in one language , info substantives in another , appears to -me to be a perversion , and not a translation of the words . The word punishment in Matthew refers to a judicial peitfcnce . men-
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t < o « ed in a ptfecedip ^ ^? -s ^| j-- > icff which it is the ^ esiAt , aa 4 whijch determines ihe nature ofiltic pt * T riishment r and $ h # ^ vs that it oafr * - not be corrective , 'M > ejpBrt frora me ye cursed into fcveklasti ^ g fire , and these » feall goaway into eve r * lasting punishment /* The wqtjI
destruction in rhe ^ salonjans is also connected with rjre * 4 < The Lord Jesus shall berevealed from heaven with his mighty angels , in flaming fire , taking vengeance on them who know not God—who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction . ' ' The passages , therefore , jointly and separately shew that the punishment of llie wicked will be destruction by fire , and that that clestruc-Uo / i will be everlasting . We have now seen what J ) f . Estlin has advanced in ord ^ r to prove that 44 the end of
punishment in the Divine governuietrUjs to reform . " Let us now turn o . ur attention to what he h $$ said to prove the contrary . ) In page 1 / 71 , the Doctor s ^ j ^ , u It is highly probable that this state of punishment will he terminated by death ; th ^ t -the wicked will actually dio agaijra ;
and thus the second death , which is mentioned in scripture , #£ t 6 r whioli evil will be no more , i § \ o be taken literally . '' In page 11 , he tells us that the account of the fall of man in the Book-of Genesis is designed to convey this
important practical truth , " 1 hat sin and death arc inseparably cqjinected ; that death is the uajturaJ , necessary , and unch . ai ) ge ^ Ue orfect of sin ; and that asj our fir * t parents transgressed tb ^ , law of God , or sinned ; arijd as aB i * 's descendants h ^ ve foliow ^< i > *> wiil follow J ^ is exa pjpl ^^ o | i e
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Vl % M ^ MttrMni ' sSfYift urts on Dr . Esttfoi ' s JDi # wtitse $ S t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/26/
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