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his QUEER DOCTRINE.


ial Views In the News OF last week,
we wish nrst TO say that IL his explana.
lions Of biblical passages are not more
correct than bis rendering OF = simple
Greek phrase, then to follow him is to
follow very incorrect teacher and very
incorrect teachings. "Alethou huper-
'aspistes" does not mean truth over in
fidelity or unbelief," as DR.. Barnes al
leges, but means literally defender OF
the true" "Huperaspistes" means one
one who holds a shield over, a protect
Or, defender" and "alethou" is the gem
itive case Of the adjective "alethes,"
which means "unconcealed," and hence
''resl, true" The word "pragmatos"
could be- understood as following "ale-
thou" and could be translated as doc
trine." DR.. Barnes should not give such
free Transitions as that to the public,
as 1t 10 easy 10 wreck doctrines with in
correct TRANSACTIONS.
Catholics do nos believe that Purga-
tory eommsAcss 9Th the millennium,
Dr. Bsrass' tdss, and In discussing THE
question n viii not be necessary 20
prove that tAsse 10 . purgatory. Dr.
Bsrne's sdmiis this and proves 1t, but
gets the date wrong. What ne wish to
prove is thAt there is > middle state To-
Gated somewhere, but not necessarislly
with sign post "Purgatory," where the
souls OF the just and the unjust await
the General Judgement. The Catholic
Church does not define a particular
judgement st death, but that there is
judgement of some kind is evident from
the teaching Of Scriptures, "for 1t came
to pass" says Luke xvi. 1928, shat the
begger died, AID was carried by the an
gels into AbrshAm's bosom: the rich
man also died and was buried; and in
hell he lifted up his eyes, being in tor
ments, and seeth Abraham afar of, and
Lasarus in his bosom" This place in
which Lazarus Abided, designated "Ab-
raham's Bosom" IL also called Limbo, :"
from the Latin word 'limbus," border,
edge, "a region bordering on hell" says
the sacred scholiast, which Is evident
ly existent, judging from the Goth
verse OF the same chapter, in which
Abraham replies to the rich mans re-
quest that Lazarus be sent to console
him, Between us and you there is a
great gulf fixed" and there was no
crossing this gulf for any. This Cath
Ollie Limbo or Borderland Is mention
ed elsewhere also, for in Luke xiii.
43 Christ on the cross said to the RE-
PENTANT thief beside him, To-day
shalt thou be with me In paradise"
By paradise Christ did not mean heav-
en-. He could not, for the thief, even If
Neither did Christ mean hell" in it's
final sense when he said paradise" for
the terms are opposite. Therefore he
must he must have intended to men tion
some middle place existing at that ime,
and if the points raised by the
Bible exist to-day, still existing. In
End Pet. iii. 10, Christ is mentioned as
going and preaching to the spirits in
lin prison." This is the paradise" he
spoke OF to the repentant thief, for they
were not suffering, and when he de
scended into hell" in the words of the
creed, he descended into Limbo to lib
crate the souls OF the just who were
awaiting his arrival. The translation
of ''ekeruxen" as preached" in this
verse, is a poor one, for it means prop
erly ITO be herald" and announce as
herald" and ito preach" is given on
ly as fourth and last meaning. The
idea is that he announced to the souls
of the just detained there that their
salvation had been consummsted by His
sufferings and death AS predicted to
them, and here comes the Pieff de resist
enee.
According to DIR. Barnes idea all
souls, good or bad, are preserved, or
bottled up in "a trsnce-like state, until
the millennium, when they are again
set loose, restored to life" says Dr.
Barnes, TO cavort around this earth
again, and have second try, we pre-
sumo, to work out their salvation. Is
MT this a foolish doctrine, and one that
is misleading? To follow this teach
ing man might as we'll plunge into all
kinds OF sin regardless of consequences
for will he not have a thousand years in
which to repent and be purged, ten
times longer than many exist on this
sphere. Either DIR. Barnes is mistaken
in his trance" theory that all souls
await the millennium in an unconscious
or "bottled-up" state, or Jesus Christ
made 9 big mistake when he told the
repentant thief about paradise. IL the
thiefs soul was to be lin trance, "
what WAS the use OF telling him about
it? And II the souls were 70 go into q
trance after Christ announced that He
had died for them, what Was the use OF
doing that? And II they we're not ''in
a trance" before he announced His
death to them. were :hey not conscious?
Didn't they have to be conscious to I'M
derstand the good news he was bring
ing them? The more you look at the
"bottled-up theory OF soul preservA-
ton the more ridiculous 1t looks.
He gives a man q possible hundred