, 1874-03-15

o,be,~ Of "the buildings Of the Temple.
1I.et him that is in Judea fee to the noun
+,;ns." Wnv to the mountainB, il the end o.
ia world has ar1iyed7 "The stars shall faA
e en- sha.l be ehaken."-Verse 90. "Then
shall appear tie sign OF the Bon Of Man 10 ~
Heaven. and they ahall see the Son OF
Han coming in he clouds Of heaven, with power pS
aud great glo1y."- Verse So. When inns m
generation shall not pass TIL oil these fR,nsd un
Of Heaven be likenod," etc. -a1u., 1.
When7 When The sign Of the Son Of u, Man p
shall appear. ETC., l. g., in "this generation. . !.
Wheu shall these go away into kolas1n = a'onion: mon.
When the Son Of Man shall come IN bus Gioty.
And when is thet7 "Defore this generation
shal) pass." In other words: this is . hishly
wrought description Of the remarkable events
that took place when the Jewish dlepensa1ioh
ended aud The Christian era WAS 1naueufateo'
Whether so or not, the sentence pronounced is
NOT AS ENDLESS DooI,- .
drBt because the adjcetve qualifying the the noun 'u
csuse the condt,on to which >. they are rs
consirncd (toEnsin-" pruning "discipliuo y
ia not hnaLty, but process OF Improvement.
More, tar mere, be sstd On this Question ont
ann End a,on,os The derivation Of aio. is involved
n soms doubt 1t comes either from the verb aea,
VIII h ai%ays: ana ,o On, tae Rresehe y a.
e - to erist"-to that the word thus derived
siruinea "eyer-beiug," "alwass-e1isting" or II Is
derived from the ,sr1s az aem., "alen mean to ,t
blow" to breatlc. ocuoASs Ale o4sAoeo ou tns
question:
In this connection, remind Mr. Rood that the
Christian F1the1s-Origen, for e1amplo-who
were Universslists,-used tue phrase hotdsl's
a,o,ioa, to express [helr her, Ideas of Punshment-
It's Of small import whether uion is derived
from ae, always, and on, to exist, o: 40 deuai to
breathe. Tie vital question is,
BOW TUE nIBLE USES TILE WORDS
oion and uionios. The answer is, It speaks
dion which demonstrates tnat the void cannot
mean ''eternity," which has no beginning, no
ending, and Of which there can be but one. The
adjective il used similarly. Canaan was to be an
dio1ios possession Of the Jews, but it has long
since passed from their hands. So Jonah sayB !:
''our or THE BELLY or HE'LL CRIED I.
Earth with les bars Has about me forever" II
this hell u Jonah's only lasted three days. What
right Inns AIr. Reed to claim that any other he'll
to which the same word is applied shall endure
andlesely7 So. too, mono were to pass thlouNh
the land OF Iaumea forever; and yet, in 1886,
John L. Stevens traTerscd that country from
end to end dion dionios. aud every form Of tho
Hprd is used iu tho Bible continually iu limited
sense. Tho law was to be an everlasting cove
nant.
position that the word in dispute has tbs moan
ing be gives it. Will he discard Christianity be-
ca1lse tho jewish uion was to bo dionios or lis
Interpretation OF the word2
THE LOGICAL EoS-sEQU1ruR,
with which he closes, deserves notice:
1nasmuch as the noun in some connections afg-
pi6es forever" s'eternityr las aboya Bhown), It
zecns clear and reasonable that tns adjective
wa used By the New Testament wri:ers to denote
"etarna everlasting" in thsr statements conceel-
tng future Life. "
Because s'great" means "infnite when ap-
Piled to God. therefore great Ay is infinite.
Why not cay, rather. as the noun does not mean
"eternlty," the adjective cannot?
The two or three assumptions in the paragraph
concerning IS ruin," perdition," obstruction, -
etc., only need to be referred to. The word
olethros denotes the ruinous consequences Of
wroug-doins. regardless Of duration.
Mr. Reed hasa
DIFFICULT JOB or Rand.
His self-imposed task il. to get out o. branch
(wthout gratting) what the root does not con-
tain to ind in . pathological effect what tho
cause does not possess. This lie cannot do.
submit, then, Mr. Editor, that, after SO feeble
tdeIense from one who is so able when he has q
Lould be 1t dismissed, With COSTS"
CHICAGO, March 9, 1874. J. ". HANSON.