Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-08
DUNCAN'S GOSPEL LESSONS.
REPLY No. Is.

occasion to publish many things in
tie LEDGER that | would never have
otherwise asked secular paper to
print for me. And then he has ia
vorea me hy showing plainly The
inherent weakness and transparency
of his theological system.
The reader has noticed that Mr.
Duncan, in the paper of March 25,
has not even attempted reply to my
argument for the scripture authority |
for infant baptism in LEDGER of 18th !
of March. He found it easier 10
''saitch off, on another track. He
says those dying In infancy are saved
hy "the abundant mercy of Gnd!"
If They are not sinful, why MT save
them without mercy? Why not save
them by justice? BY depending on
mercy Mr.. D, virtually comedies ali
| have claimed, for out nf Christ
there is no mercy for our race, Our
! God is Il consuming fire" TO al who
are not in Christ. Heb. 1929 and
Elk 24.l7.
Mr.. d. says: "Infants can only
commit sin after they have an oppor-
tunty to learn their duty and fail to
do so, or neglect to perform such
duty when they are informed in re-
gard to it, If this theory is true.
the hest way parents can take to
keep their children pure and siniess
Is not to teach them anything good
keep them in ignorance of all duty.
| was aware that Mr.. DIS people
were very recreant in their dutle-
toward their children, but l was not
prepared to be informed that it was
matter of religious principle with
= them. Mr.. DIS position here is the
same as the philosophy of the com
inunl~l, luat II, dD''iSh al oih on'
d crime by abolishing all rule and law!
Pretty theory for Il lawyer, helongin!
Ito Christian church - ''begun il
: lSO9T
Mr.. Duncan defines the Gospel a
= being constituted of three facts
'. "lst. Christ died. 2nd. Christ wa
buried. 3rdi. Christ rose again.
I il cons SIS of death, burial and res
!, urrection.'' 1t is from this fact !!
of burial that he derives his only al
rumrnt for his immersion. Nov
reader, l propose to demolish b
. theory of the gospel and explode h
m immersion by showing to a demon
stration that Christ was never burie'
l. in any proper sense of that term, an
that the la ytng of his mangled bod
in the tomb of Joseph was not ia
81 of the Gospel and was not intendt
as burial.
20 20 Now for the proof: 1st. The on
- - place in the English bible where it
81 said that the body of the Lord vi
20 buried is in the passage MIR.
90 90 quoted, viz: 1st Cor. l5-4. L.
20 word translated ''buried" is t
70 Greek word etaphe, from thapto, a
J 90 means here "was prepared
so burial" In evidence of this l rel
est the first to Gen. 1925, $50 Jose
,ur died, being an hundred and
all. wears old and they prepared him
burial and put him in a coffin
Egypt" Here the Greek
10. ethopsan. Tnry did not bury Jose
- before they put him in the c"ffin,
D they prepared him for burial and
II, him in the coffi1 in Egypt, but
WAS not buried for 263 years af'
ward. See Joshua "a 32, and Il
Inn with the word katoru1dn and
ethapsan. Again, let the reader t
zone 10 Acts 5-6, "And the young I
arose. wound him up, and carried
n. out and buried (?) him." No"
At this. The word here is ethdps
. .air Why that unseemIy haste! And
burv man without letting his
know that he was dead! Is that
S0' w,v Christian men act All Is
nlain when we read 1t corre'
ua re prepared him for burial, that
laid hun out lecently. L"ok at
other place - John ID 40. Il
took they the body OF jesus
wound 1T in linen el1thS> with
spices. rs the manner OF the jew
! to bury, TO prepare for burial.
Greek word in tins place Is entnph
from the same root, tdphos, u
2nd. Oar Interpretation Is conhi
L. hy the fact that the Evangelists n
Sav that the body of our Lord
-. bnr;ed-it was laid in the sepul
" re- of Joseph as mere matter OF hi
,gs. convenience to await burial after
,nnn Sabbath. John. 10, 31-42.
ii'o' bnriat rites were not entirely
plete, for the women came ear
hand the morning ''to anoint him. {
1917 and thus finish the rite
sepulture. Joseph and Mood
IrroR. had taken the mangled and bl
body from the cross. had evid
washed it, Gas was done in Acts
NLs for it was wrapped in clean linen
1.-The spices, and then laid it in jos
new tomh TO await final sep,l
I'LL lust as the body of Dorcas was
N in an upper chamber. Acts
" After the Sabbath his friends
to bury HIM. when lol he had
from the dead and they never d
Ito i,ury him or even cempiet