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love and harmony." : So Saint Paul here not obscurely 

 asserts that the subjection of His vanquished enemies 

 to Christ is a subjection of the same kind not of 

 unwilling servitude, but of willing obedience. It 

 would be difficult to assert the universality of salva- 

 tion for mankind more clearly than Saint Paul 

 has asserted it in this passage : " As in Adam all die, 

 so also in Christ shall all be made alive." This is 

 more than a prophecy of what is called in modern 

 language, though not in the language of Holy Scrip- 

 ture, a resurrection to a future life. Life, in the 

 language of the New Testament, when it has any 

 higher meaning than merely natural life, never 

 means life apart from God it never means exist- 

 ence in Hades or Gehenna ; and if such a meaning 

 were possible in any context, it would be here 

 excluded by the final words, "God shall be all in all." 

 The word death, also, in such a context as this, 

 must be understood to mean not the death of the 

 body merely, but the collective consequences of sin, 

 which are spiritual death. See Saint Paul's expres- 

 sion elsewhere : " Awake, thou that sleepest, and 

 arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon 

 thee." 2 Respecting " the abolition of death," compare 

 the following from Saint Paul's latest epistle : " Our 

 Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and 

 brought life and immortality to light through the 

 Gospel"; 3 and from the Epistle to the Hebrews, " That 



1 Allin's Universalism Asserted, p. 241. 

 2 Eph. v. 14. 3 2 Tim. i. 10. 



