dled. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Gen. ix, 29. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

INSTANCES AMONG THE

PATRIARCHS.

Gen. xi, 11, 13, 15. 17, 19, 21, 23, 25. 32. And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg lived, after he begat Ren, two hundred and nine years,and begat sons and daughters. And Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And Serug lived, after hebegat Nahor,two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Gen. xxiii, 1. And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Gen. xxv, 7, 8, 17. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years: and was gathered to his people. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people.

Gen. xxxv, 28, 29. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sous

Esau and Jacob buried him.

Gen. xlvii, 7, 8, 28. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob

Lev. xix, 32. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Deut. xxxii, 25. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.

2 Chron. x, 8. 9. But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before

him. And he said unto them, What advice give ye, that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

Ezra iii, 12, 13. But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept

with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

Job xii, 12. With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job xv, 7, 17, 18. Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it.

SIGNS OF AGE.

Gen. xxvii, 1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

Gen. xlviii, 10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. . . .

1 Sam. iii, 2. And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he

could not see.

1 Sam. iv, 15. Now Ell was ninety and eight years old; and Lis eyes were dim, that he could not see.

the king walketh before you: and 1 Sam. xii, 2. And now, behold, I am old and grey-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you:

and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

2 Sam. xix, 33-35. And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. And Barlong have I to live, that I should zillai said unto the king, How go up with the king unto Jerusalem? I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

dom.

Isa, xlvii, 6. I was wroth with my people; I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient thou hast very heavily laid thy yoke.

Joel i, 2, 3. Hear this, ye old

Eccles. xii, 3, 4. In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low.

Hosea vii, 9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

(See also under BODY.)

LAW OF VOWS ACCORDING TO AGE, Lev. xxvii, 3-7. And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels

of silver, and for the female thy

estimation shall be three shekels of silver. And if it be from

sixty years old and above, if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the

female ten shekels.

(DEATH, see under DISEASE AND DEATH.)

WEARINESS OF LIFE. Num. xi, 15. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

Num. xiv, 2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or,

1 Kings xix, 4. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life: for I am not better than my fathers.

I not from the womb? why did I Job iii, 11-15, 20-23. Why died not give up the ghost when I the knees prevent me? or why the came out of the belly? Why did breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul: Which long for death, but it cometh not: and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Job vi, 8-11. Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that 1 should prolong my life?

Job vii, 15, 16. So that my soul rather than my life. I loathe it; chooseth strangling, and death I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

of mylife: I will leave iny complaint Job x, 1, 18, 19. My soul is weary upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had scen me! I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job xiv, 13. O that thon wouldest hide me in the grave that until thy wrath be past, that thou thou wouldest keep me secret, wouldest appoint me a set time,

and remember me!

was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Eccles. ii, 17. Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is griev ous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Eccles. iv, 2, 3. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Jer. viii, 3. And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Jer. xx, 14-18. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee, making him very glad.

And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon-tide; Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my Jonah iv, 3, 8. Therefore now, life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a veheupon the head of Jonah, that he ment east wind; and the sun beat fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

shall men seek death, and shall Rev. ix, 6. And in those days not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

PECULIAR INSTANCES.

Gen. xlvi, 30. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

John vill, 22. Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because come. he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot

SUICIDE-VIRTUAL. Luke iv, 9. And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.

Acts xvi, 27, 28. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled, But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm; for we are all here.

INSTANCES OF SUICIDE. Judges xvi, 29, 30. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein: so the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

1 Sam. xxxi, 4, 5. Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through,

and abuse me. But his armour

bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. And

when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

2 Sam. xvii, 23. And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

1 Kings xvi, 18, 19. And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palaceof the king's house,and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

(BURIAL, see under DISEASE AND DEATH, Page 177.)

THE RESURRECTION OF
THE DEAD.

that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

Acts xxvi, 6-8. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to Jews. Why should it be thought come: for which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

words were now written! oh that Job xix, 23-27. Oh that my they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my ReHeb. xi, 19, 35. Accounting that deemer liveth, and that he shall God was able to raise him up, stand at the latter day upon the even from the dead; from whence earth: And though after my skin also he received him in a figure. my flesh shall I see God: Whom worms destroy this body, yet in Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were eyes shall behold, and not ano-ance; that they might obtain a I shall see for myself, and mine tortured, not accepting deliverther; though my reins be consumed within me. better resurrection.

Selah.

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1 Thess. iv, 15, 16. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them himself shall descend from heaven which are asleep. For the LORD with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump shall rise first. of God; and the dead in Christ

PROOFS.

Mark xii, 26, 27. And as touchye not read in the book of Moses, ing the dead, that they rise; have how in the bush God spake unto and the God of Jacob? He is not Abraham, and the God of Isaac, him, saying, I am the God of the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Luke xx, 37, 38. Now, that the dead are raised, even Moses calleth the Lord the God of shewed at the bush, when he Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Rom. vi, 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness the likeness of his resurrection. of his death, we shall be also in

there be no resurrection of the 1 Cor. xv, 13-23, 49, 50. But if

dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen, then is our also vain. Yea, and we are found preaching vain, and your faith is false witnesses of God; because raised up Christ: whom he raised we have testified of God that he then is not Christ raised; And if not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in

this life only we have hopein Christ,, corruption, and this mortal shall we are of a men most misera- have put on immortality, then ble. But now is Christ risen from shall be brought to pass the saythe dead, and become the first-ing that is written, Death is swalfruits of them that slept. For lowed up in victory. O death, since by man came death, by man where is thy sting? O grave, came also the resurrection of the where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own Phil. iii, 11, 21. If by any means order: Christ the first - fruits; I might attain unto the resurrecafterward they that are Christ's tion of the dead. Who shall at his coming. And as we have change our vile body, that it may borne the image of the earthy, we be fashioned like unto his glorious shall also bear the image of the body, according to the working heavenly. Now this I say, breth-whereby he is able even to subdue ren, that flesh and blood cannot all things unto himself. inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

MODE AND RESULT.

Luke xx, 33-36. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of

them is she? for seven had her to

wife. And Jesus answering, said

unto them, The children of this

world marry, and are given in

marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

John v, 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

1 Thess. iv, 13, 14, 17, 18. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

For if we believe that

Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherethese words. fore comfort one another with

ALLUSIONS, ETC.

Ezek. xxxvii, 1, 7-14. The hand carried me out in the spirit of the of the LORD was upon me, and LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, 1 Cor. xvi, 42-48, 51--56. So also there was a noise, and behold a is the resurrection of the dead; it shaking, and the bones came tois sown in corruption, it is raised gether, bone to his bone. And in incorruption: It is sown in when I beheld, lo, the sinews and dishonour, it is raised in glory: it the flesh came up upon them, and is sown in weakness, it is raised the skin covered them above: but in power: It is sown a natural there was no breath in them, body, it is raised a spiritual body. Then said he unto me, Prophesy There is a natural body, and there unto the wind, prophesy, son of is a spiritual body. And so it is man, and say to the wind, Thus written, The first man Adam was saith the Lord Gop; come from made a living soul, the last Adam the four winds, O breath, and was made a quickening spirit. breathe upon these slain, that Howbeit that was not first which they may live. So I prophesied is spiritual, but that which is as he commanded me, and the natural; and afterward that which breath came into them, and they is spiritual. The first man is of lived, and stood up upon their the earth, earthy; the second man feet, an exceeding great army. is the Lord from heaven. As is Then he said unto me, Son of the earthly, such are they also man, these bones are the whole that are earthy: and as is the house of Israel: behold, they say, heavenly, such are they also that Our bones are dried, and our are heavenly. Behold, I shew hope is lost: we are cut off for our you a mystery; We shall not all parts. Therefore prophesy and sleep, but we shall all be changed, say unto them, Thus saith the Lord In a moment, in the twinkling of GOD, Behold, O my people, I will an eye, at the last trump; (for the open your graves, and cause you trumpet shall sound;) and the dead to come up out of your graves. shall be raised incorruptible, and and bring you into the land of we shall be changed. For this Israel: And ye shall know that I corruptible must put on incor- am the LORD, when I have opened ruption, and this mortal must put your graves, O my people, and on immortality. So when this brought you up out of your corruptible shall have put on in-graves, And shall put my Spirit

in you, and ye shall live; and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

graves were opened; and many Matth. xxvii, 52, 53. And the bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Jews therefore knew that he was John xii, 9. Much people of the there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

Rom. viii, 19-23. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travalleth in pain together until now: And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting demption of our body. for the adoption, to wit, the re

OBJECTIONS AND THEIR

REFUTATION.

wife

Matth. xxii 23-33. The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the multitude heard this,