GENERAL INDEX

AN important syllogism, 30. Adam, first and second, 45. A stupendous fact, 67. Alvah Hovey on 1 Peter 3:18-20, 100. Acts 23:8 explained, 102. Altar of sacrifice not in heaven, 177. All emotions of dead cease, 117. Albert Barnes of Revelation 6:9-11, 119. Adam, death of, 124. Adam, test of, 126. Adam, mortal or immortal? which? 136. Abraham’s ancestors idolaters, 149. An argumentum ad hominem, 181. Angels bear saints to heaven, when, 182. Anabaino (ascend), meaning of, 186. Absent from the body, 193. Adam allowed a second trial, 246. Adam’s death the penalty for his first sin, 248. Absurdity of placing judgment at death, 254. Argument of H. H. Dobney on the judgment, 255. A general judgment overthrows the doctrine of consciousness in death, 255. A sublime faith, 257. A clean universe, 274. Aion and aionios defined by Greenfield, Schrevelius, Liddell and Scott, Parkhurst, Robinson, Schleusner, Wahl, and Cruden, 294. A convincing comparison, 300. Augustine’s purgatory, 302. All men do not have what they desire, 316. Analogies of nature, 317. Anomalies of the present state, 318. Annihilation impossible, 319. Appendix, the doctrine illustrated, 339. Abel’s blood crying from the ground, 119. A dishonorable perversion, 65. Analogy between death and sleep, 140.

Angels not the ancient prophets, 219. An ancient case of modern Spiritualism, 159. Anastasis, meaning of, 221. An illustration on future punishment, 301. A spirit, what? 33. A spirit hath not flesh and bones, 101; note by Bloomfield, 102 Aphthartos, athanasia, and aphtharsia, use and meaning of, 52, 55, 56. BREATH of life, what, 37. Bush on Genesis 2:7, 46; vs. Luther Lee, 107. Body formed like the soul, 78. Body, soul, and spirit, 122. Bishop Law on unconsciousness, 211. Baptized for the dead, what? 241. Benson’s terrible figure, 267. Brimstone and pitch of Isaiah 34:9, 10, 292. Bishop Newton’s testimony, 303. Bible testimony for resurrection, 232. Brutes’ reason, 312. Bible views of future punishment best, 304. CHARACTER of God inconsistent with eternal misery, 16. Christ’s sacrifice not merely human, 97. Christ quickened by the Spirit, when, 98. 1 Corinthians 5:5 explained, 104. Concerning the human soul, 106. Christ in the grave till his resurrection, 189. Comma, when invented, 190. 2 Corinthians 5:8 explained, 193. Clothed and unclothed, meaning of, 196. 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 explained, 202. Crellius on state of the dead till the resurrection, 211. Christ the second Adam, 260. Contradiction of terms, 267. Clarke’s note on Gehazi, 296. Capacities of the soul, 313. Can the soul be killed? 109. Christ the express image of God, 35. Christ the first born, etc., how, 166. Christ first to rise from the dead, Acts 26:23 explained, 167. Christ and the Sadducees, 170. Clarke on Genesis 2:7, 38; on Hebrews 12:22, 92; key to the words “forever and ever”, 295. Conant on Genesis 2:7 and Isaiah 2:22, 38. Criticism, a desperate case of, 188.

Cruden on the words “eternal”, etc., 295. Can saints in heaven continually look into hell? 118. DESTROY flesh — save spirit, 104. Dr. Clarke on Matthew 10:28, 114. Do souls have blood? 119. “Day”, meaning of in Genesis 2:17, 130. “Die”, meaning of in Genesis 2:17, 130. Death compared to sleep, 140. Dead have no knowledge, 141; are in the dust, not in heaven, 142, 144; have no remembrance of God, 143; perish without a resurrection, 145. Date of Samuel’s ministry, 152. Date of Saul’s reign, 152. Difficulties in conscious-state theory, 197. Departing to be with Christ, when, 206. Death cannot separate us from God, 215. Dead come up from where buried, 230. Death the wages of sin, 263; threatened Adam, what, 135. Death the greatest punishment, 280. Degrees of punishment, 282. Dobney and Dalton on animal intelligence, 312. David not ascended to heaven, 144. Departure and return of the soul, 106; notes by Luther Lee, Bush and Parkhurst, 107. Destiny of the wicked (see under “wicked”). Despairing words of Barnes and Saurin, 302, 303. Ecclesiastes 12:7 explained, 68. 3:21 explained, 80. Earthly house, meaning of, 195. Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones, 238. Eternal life yet future, 260. Everlasting fire, 277. Everlasting punishment, 278. Ezekiel’s unquenchable fire, 286. Eternal torment threatened to no one, 291. Eternal suffering not proportioned to the sins of a finite life, 301. Evil tendency of the doctrine of eternal misery, 303. Expressions used to describe the final doom of the wicked, 270. FALSE answers returned, 10. Flesh, frequent meaning of, 78. Force of Christ’s expression,“to-day”, 192. Future punishment eternal, 278; it is death, 280.

GATHERED to his people, 147. God of Abraham, etc., how, 173. Great cloud of witnesses, 217. Greek terms for resurrection defined, 221. God can do and will do what he has said he will do, 243. God must raise, judge, and punish, the wicked to be true to himself, 251. Ge-enna (hell) defined, 287. God’s dealings with his creatures, 299. God a person, 33. God the God of the living, 169. HOW the Bible is to be taken, 14. Hell defined, 111. How martyrs cry to God, 122. Hades and sheol, meaning of, 138. Hard of Abraham, 149. How the dead are represented in parables, 178. House from heaven, meaning of, 195. Holy Spirit, pledge of what, 198. How we have heavenly building now, 201. How we are to be with the Lord, 212. Holam (Hebrew) synonymous with aionios (Greek), 295. Ham, J. Panton, on human capabilities, 314. Historical view of the doctrine of immortality, 320. Hell, words so translated, 111. Hinnom, valley of, a figure of the place of future punishment, 287. Hebrews 12:22-24 explained 87. Hovey, A., D. D., on Revelation 19:10, 220. IMPORTANT inquiries, 3. Immortality, natural, results of the doctrine, 11. Illogical illustrations by Joseph Cook, 24. Image of God, what, 29. Image and likeness, meaning of, 31. Image, figurative use of, 32. Is God a person? 34. Illustrations of the word “became”, 42. Immortal and immortality, 49; how used in the Bible, 52. “Immortal”, how often used, 51. Importance of Moses and the prophets, 174. Illustrations of parables, 176. In the body and out, 202. Identity in the resurrection, 224. In Christ all made alive, 247.

Immortality taken for granted, 305; assumed, 318. Influence of the doctrine of immortality. 332. Idumea, threatenings against, illustrate Revelation 14:11, 344. Immaterial souls of brutes, 308. Is Abraham in hell? 149. Instinct not the only reasoning powers of brutes, 311. Immortality, conclusions concerning, 57. JUST men, spirits of, made perfect, 87. Job 32:8 explained, 76. Jude 7 explained, 289. Judgment, doctrine of, contradicted by the theory of consciousness in death, 252. Judgments against sin only shorten life here, 250. KITTO on Adam, 44. Kolasis, rendered “punishment” in Matthew 25:46, explained, 280. Katephagen (“devour”, Revelation 20:9) defined by Stuart, 273. Killing the soul, 109. 1 Kings 17:21, 22 explained, 108. LOCKE and Clark on matter, 20. Living soul, the, 40. Luke 23:46 explained, 85. Luke 24:39 explained, 101. Luke 23:33-36 explained, 184. Language of appearance, 159. Life everlasting, 257. MYSTERIOUS inquiries, 8. Matter, what is it? 19 capable of wonderful changes, 23 can it think? 25. Man and beast have same breath of life, 40. Mattison, H., on Genesis 2:7, 14. Man and beast both “living souls”, 46. Multiply, but multiply what? 79. Ministers in trouble on 1 Peter 3:18-20, 95. Matthew 10:28 explained, 109. Man in death, 138. Matthew 17:1-9 explained, 160. Moses raised from the dead, 163; objections considered, 165-168. Matthew 22:23-30 explained, 169. Manutius, inventor of the comma, 190. Mortality swallowed up of life, when, 199. “My departure,” meaning of, 207.

Men determine their own destiny, 247. Matthew 25:41 explained, 277. Matthew 25:46 explained, 278. Mark 9:44 explained, 284. Mistakes of the Reformers, 302. Matter cannot think, 309. Moncrieff, W. G., on properties of matter, 309. Milton’s translation of Ecclesiastes 3:21, 84. Moses raised from the dead, 163. Moses and the prophets on the state of the dead, 174. NEPHESH defined, 61. N’sHAH-mah defined, 65. Noah mouthpiece for Christ, 97. Neither angel nor spirit, 102. No restoration from the second death, 265. No relief when death comes, 283. Necromancy, meaning of, 153. OBJECT of parable of the rich man and Lazarus, 177. Origin of the idea of an immortal soul, 198. Outward man perishes, inward man renewed, 216. Our nature inherited from Adam, 245. Origen’s purgatory, 302. POSSIBILITIES involved, 10. Psuche defined, 63. Pneuma defined, 64. Psalm 31:5; Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59 explained, 85. Purgatory sustained, 95. Preaching to spirits in prison, when and why, 94, 95. 1 Peter 3:18-20 explained, 93. Phantasma and pneuma, 101. Parkhurst on Genesis 35:18, 108. Penalty of Adam’s transgression, what, 126; carried out, 129. Penalty, to whom threatened, 131. Paradise, where is it? 185. Paradise no half-way house, 189. Psalm 90:10 explained, 151. Putting off old man for new, what, 201. Present with the Lord, what, 202. Philippians 1:21-24 explained, 207. Paul’s strait, 207; his desire, 208. Priestly, Dr., on Philippians 1:23, 211. Philosophy of Paul’s desire, Philippians 1:23, 215.

Putting off my tabernacle, 218. 2 Peter 2:9 explained, 219. Plan of salvation gave all men probation, 246. Plato’s Acherusian lake, 302. Philosophy, claims of, 307. Pritchard on the vital principle, 312. Personification, a Bible figure, 119, 180. Plasso (Greek), yatsar (Hebrew), defined, 75. Punctuation of Luke 23:43, 190. Purgatory an invention to relieve the great wrong of eternal conscious misery, 302; borrowed from Plato by Augustine, id., and adopted by the church of Rome, id. Pur asbeston (unquenchable fire) defined, 288. QUOTATION from Dr. R. F. Weymouth, 268. Quenchless fire, 284; figure borrowed from Old Testament, 285. RELATION of the doctrine of consciousness in death to Spiritualism, 4. Revelation 6:9-11 explained, 116. Reality, or a vision, which? 161. Rich man and Lazarus, 173. Rich man in hades, not gehenna, 175. Romans 8:38, 39 explained, 215. Revelation 19:10; 22:8, 9, explained, 219. Resurrection of the dead, 221; disproves immortality of the soul, 222; a necessity, 224; the hope of the church, 232; the time of reward, 234; depends on the second coming of Christ, 235; is the basis of the promises of the Scriptures, 237; testimony of Jos. Alleine and Dr. Clarke, 238. Resurrection of the wicked, 244. Reason why Adam died, 249. Reason why people die since Adam, 249. Righteous and wicked alike die in Adam, 247. Righteous and wicked alike made alive in Christ, 247. Rome’s purgatory, 302. Removes skepticism, 304. Rebellion against God not to be eternal, 275. Ruahh defined, 63. SOURCES of information, 9. Significance of the word “became”, 19. Scott, Clarke, and Conant on “the breath of life”, 38. Soul and spirit, meaning of, 58; how used in the Scriptures, 62. Spirit returns to God, 68. Spirit, condition of, coming from, and going to, God, 71.

Spirit, from whence does it come? 75. Spirit, created or generated, which? 77. Spirit of man, who knows? 80. Spirit as applied to beasts, 81. Spirit, committing it to God, 85. Solomon does not contradict himself, 84. Spirits of just men made perfect, 87. Spirits in prison, 93; who? 96. Spirit hath not flesh and bones, 101. Soul, in Matthew 10:28, should be rendered life, 114. Souls in heaven not shut up, 117. Samuel and the woman of Endor, 152. 1 Samuel 28:3-20 explained, 152. Subjects of the heavenly kingdom, 163. Signification of Greek word “en,“ 190, note. Shame and everlasting contempt, 276. Sodom and Gomorrah turned to ashes, 290. Sins done in the body only, punished, 301. Soul immaterial, 308. Smith, Sidney, on properties of matter, 309. Sagacity of animals, 311. Sins in hell committed faster than God can punish, Benson, 267. THIS book, why written, Preface. Things undeniable, 7. The great phenomenon, 7. The light of nature insufficient — Stuart, Hovey, Dobney, Socrates, Cicero, Seneca, Hobbs, 12. The Bible the only source of authority, 14. The creation of man, 17. Three great facts, 51. Translations of Ecclesiastes 3:21, 84. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 explained, 122. The transfiguration, 160; type of Christ’s kingdom, 169. The thief on the cross, 184. “To-day”, in Luke 23:43, modifies what? 190. Thief did not die that day, 193. The second great falsehood, 198. “To die is gain”, 214. The dead conscious of no lapse of time, 210. Those sleeping in Jesus brought with him, 216. 2 Timothy 4:6 explained, 217. Testimony of Revelation 20:5, 219. Tyndale, Carmichael, and Muller on the resurrection, 223.

The body is what comes up in the resurrection, 231. The glorious change, 244. Temporal death not a penalty but a result, 245. The judgment to come, 252. The life everlasting, 257. The wages of sin, 262; Henry Constable’s testimony, 268. Two deaths clearly brought to view, 266. Tormented forever and ever, 291. Tyndale’s pungent inquiry, 223. Traduction vs. creationism, 79. UNDYING worm, 284. Universal belief and inborn desires, 315. Unquenchable fire, meaning of asbeston, 288. VISION, not death, 204. Vincent’s fearful picture of hell, 267. WHAT goes to God when man dies, 27. Why does spirit go to God? 73. White robes given to martyrs, what, 120. Who go into sheol, 139; location and duration of its dominion, id. “We fly away;” meaning of, 151. With me in paradise, 184. When did Christ ascend to his Father? 186. What hath God wrought? 198. Whence come our bodies? 243. Wycliffe’s dust, 242. When we are to receive life, 260. Wicked shall be destroyed, perish, go to perdition, 269; come to an end, be as though they had not been, 270; they are compared to the most evanescent and perishable substances, id.; in New Testament they are likened to chaff, tares, etc., 271; illustrations of Moses and Paul, 272; shall be consumed by fire, 273; shall be recompensed in the earth, id. Worm shall not die, what, 286. Wesley and Watson on tradition, 79, 80. Zechariah 12:1 explained, 95. Zoe and psuche compared, 258.