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snoulu HOL DC translated "DfcNtN' IN DOth
places. so long rs men, or other animals,
retain the "breath of life" they are living
souls or living creatures; but when they
die, and lose the breath oSAife. they are
dead souls.
Phdrsee,-Arc we not told that the spi,-
1t OF the man goes upward, and the spirit
OF the beast goes downward TO the earth
NasareRe.-No, sir. That Is not an as
s%ertion, but n question. Solomon does de-
clare. however. that "a man heath no pre-.
eminencc abore a beast" that, in point of
fact, men are beasts , that they die like
beasts; that ALL GO UNTO n PLACE.
and that "all hre Of tie dust, and all turn
to dust again" After making these post
tie assertions, Solomon puts II question to
the wisdom Of the world. "WNo know
u '" says he, that the spirit of the man
asceEds, and that "THE SPIRIT OF THE
8: lS-2l.) He says that THE DEAD KNOW
NOT ANYTHING" and that men and beasts
"all go unit one place" Who knows any
thing to the cOntraryp .
Pharisee.--But surely you will. not teny
that the parable of the rich man and La2a-
rus Is evidence of the immortality Of the
soul.
NdzdreRe.--I do most cmpiIatically deny
1t. And a Crief exposition of that parable
will convince you, | think, that | am right.
In the first place, it would be absurd to
suppose that Christ intended to indorse u
doctrine of which lie had told his disciples
to beware. In the second place. he was
talking to the Pharisees at the time, and it
Is evident that the parable was woven out
Of their heathenish conceits for the pur-
pose of condemning them. The Pharisees
believed that riches was an evidence OF the
| Al "a r Ian FIN, Of hn1 and nx,apiv 1n ayi-
dencc of his diSapprobation; for when
Christ told them they could not worship
God and mammon "thcy derided him."
duke lG) They declared that when a
rich pharisee died, his immortal soul would
20 to u place OF happiness, Which they
termed "Abraham's Bosom" but when Il
poor man died, who was not a Pharisee, "a
man like Lazarus,) his immortal soul
would go to Il place OF misery, called Hades,
where there was a lake Of lire and brim-
stone, and there, in that dreadful place, the
soul Of the poor sinner would be tormented
for Il season by the flames, and eventually
he would be cast into the lake Of fire; and
that between lIades and "Abraham's Be-
som" there was a great gulf fixed, so that
no one could cross from one place to the
other. by preaching this doctrinc-says
Josephus--the Pharisees were enabled
nightly to persuade thc people. But the
Scriptures say that God taketh the wise
in their own craftiness," and, in i%llustra-
ton OF this, when the Savior uttered his
parable, he completely annihilated the
doctrine of the Pharisees by putting the
rich MAJ in Hadcs and Lazarus in "Abra-
hams Bosom" and representing Abraham
as saying. in response to the request of the
rich man to send some one from the dead
to warn his brethren, that They have
Moses and the prophets. let them hear
them. And If they aVW not hear Noses and
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded
though one rose from the dead" The
Pharisees knew that there was not one
particle OF authority in the writings of
Moses and the prophets for the doctrine of
the immortality of the soul, nor the other
stuff about Hades and Abraham's Bosom,
that they were in the haiti of preaching to
the people, and hence this parable must
have fallen upon their heads with crushing
effect.
Phartsee N Notwithstanding your expla-
nation of the parable, it does s EN- to me
that the SaviOr's own words to the thief
on the cross Verify | say unto thee. To-
day shalt thou be with me in paradise"-
is sufficient to prove hat the soul is i'm
mortal.
Nazdrene.-l am sorry, my friend, that
your house stands upon q sandy tounda-
ton. The American Bible Union has re-
Gently made a translation Of the New Wes-
lament that differs Immensely, upon the
point you allude to, from the Old English
translation which has heretofore hcen in
use. In answer to the thief request 10 be
remembered UheN Christ ShOuM came lntO
HIS Kingdom, the American translation rep
rescnts Jesus rs saying, verify l say UNI
to thee, In THAT A shalt thou be with
me in Paridise," Quite an important dis
tincti0n. The word Paradise is Of Persian
origin and signifies A GARDEN. 1t is evil
dent that Christ referred TO the Kingdom.
which will be paradise when fic comes
back and establishes it in the land of Ju-
dea. (See Eze. 30; 80, lisa. 5l:3.) The
American tran Station places the passage in
question in harmony with the rest OF the
Scriptures. David says that "Cirlst's S0ul
.,cds not LETT in sheol," and the English Hell,
the Greek HddcS, and the Hebrew SheOl,
are synonymous terms. and meat the yraue.
ihGri2c2.-l M. lcntcss that / have
ncvcy read the recent American t~ranila-
ton Of the New Testament, to which you
refer. and am willing to admit that it diff
fcrs exceedingly from the English version.
But ] An not satisfied y,t. Did not the
Savior say to his apostles, Immediately af-
ter his resurrection. Tat "A Spirit hath not
FLESH AND BONES as ye see me hage?' The
Scriptures say that angels are spirits, and
if they have rot flesh and bones, they must
be imlnatcria!.
Ndzdrene This ia another error In
translation. The apostles thought they
saw "a phantdsma." but Christ said unto
them "a ihaRtasmG hath not flesh and
bones us ye see me have. " The proper
rendering of phU tasmG is phantom, and
not spirit. The same error occurs in the
account of the walking Of Christ upon the
water. His apostles supposed, ON that Oc-
~casion, also, that they saw II r~hantasma-a
phantom. The meaning of phantom Is a
fancied vision; not Il reality. Paul posi-
lively asserts that Christ was made "a
q%uickening Spirit" and as He himself said
that lie had FLESH AND BONES, and ate of
a broiled fish and a honcycomb TO convince
his apostle of his reality, WI arc bound to
conclude that angels have flesh and bones
and can eat and drink as we do.
Pharisee.-Elow do you explain the dec
~laration of Christ, wherein he says that
God is 1.-THE God OF Abraham. and the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;" and that
HE is not the God of the dead, but the God
Of the living" ,
Nazarene.-Paul explains this upon the
principle that God, who quickeneth the
dead, calleth those things which be not as
though they were" So certain is it that
the patriarchs will be resnrrected, that
they are spoken OF us as though they were
now alive. Hg
Pharisee.-f Christ is to return, conquer !
all nations with the Jews, rebuild the tenn
pie, reign in Jerusalem upon tire throne of
David, and sway the sceptre OF universal I!
empire for a thousand years-why did he
say that My kingdom is not of this !!
How do you reconcile this? !
Nazareae.-Reconcile it without any diff $
l have the authority OF learned !
men lwho are familiar with both Greek ,
and Hebrew) for the assertion that the !
word which is translated world" i'm the !