This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: .suggest this figure of'moral intoxication, ' or the stupor of unbelief. St. Paul's 'three points in vers.

29-34 are--if there be no resurrection (1) why do some of you get yourselves baptized to benefit your relatives who have died unbaptized? (2) why do we live in such self-sacrifice? (3) what possibility would there be of resisting Epicurean views of life among men in general?' (Farrar, St. P. ii. 83). 11 The first of these illustrations tells of a passage through death unto life, and a transformation by means of this. The others show what varieties of organization are possible, both in the animate and inanimate worlds. have received, through Christ, the life-giving Spirit. And the order of time is the same in both cases.

First, there is the natural, earthy man; then the spiritual, heavenly man12. So in this life there is the natural, earthy body; in the life to come there will be the spiritual, heavenly body The great transformation. Ch. xv. 50-58. It is not then the carnal corruptible body which shall inherit that higher life. For this there must be a great change, which will come suddenly, when, at the sound of the trumpet (cp. 1 Thess.

iv. 16), the dead shall be raised, and all alike, living and dead, shall put on incorruption and immortality. The transformation will complete that victory, which takes from death the sting and triumph of sin, as the breach of God's lawI4. Thinking of this final triumph, let them thank God for the victory of the risen Christ; and, in the hope of that future life, of which His victory is the earnest, let them be ever active and steadfast in well-doing. 6. CONCLUSION, WITH VARIOUS EXHORTATIONS AND MESSAGES. Ch. xvi.

The collection for the saints. Ch. xvi. 1-9. The letter concludes with some practical instructions, followed.