A Pocket Cyclopaedia; Brief Explanations of Religious Terms as Understood by Universalists (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: capped by the law of the members; the worst are weighted and impeded by the animal nature. Released from it by death, the freed immortal will find larger abilities for good, and a kindlier atmosphere for growth than earth affords. In no instance is it a detriment or disadvantage. It was not originally the penalty of sin; was not the unforeseen result of accident. It was a part of God's plan, as natural and beneficent as life, and in the career of man it is as much a blessing as birth; indeed, it is birth from mortality to immortality. It is but temporary in duration; for in all its forms, ?- physical, moral, spiritual, the second death, and all the many shapes it assumes, ? it is to be destroyed: the last enemy, death, shall be destroyed (1 Cor. xv. 26). Paige's Commentary; Hanson's Bible Threateuings Explained.] Death, Second. ? Rev. ii. 11; xx. 6, 14; xxi. 8. The primary meaning of second death in the Scriptures is the second destruction of the Jewish nation. .The first death was the captivity. But by accommodation we may say that those w'lo awaken out of sin, after having died in trespasses and sins, and then relapse, have died a second death. The language, however, literally refers to the second vastatiou of the Jews, after their first national death which was in the Babylonish captivity, and the second when Jerusalem was destroyed. But it was also applied to those who had once been aroused from moral death, and again died in trespasses and sins. There is no propriety in applying it to endless torment. Universalist Book of Reference; Thayer's Theology-] Demons, Demoniacs. ? (See Devil, Satan.) The Jews of our Lord's time, as well as other ancients, regarded such diseases as insanity, idi- otcy, epilepsy, etc., as caused by evil spi...