92 Abolition of Death. CHAP. 



through death He might abolish him that had the 

 power of death, that is, the devil ; and might deliver 

 all them who through fear of death were all their 

 lifetime subject to bondage." a Compare also Saint 

 John's words : "To this end was the Son of God 

 manifested, that He might destroy the works of the 

 devil " ; 2 not only the devil, but his works with 

 him. 



The next passage to be quoted is from the Epistle 

 to the Romans. I italicise some important words, 

 and divide it into five short paragraphs, in order to 

 show to the eye its emphatic reiteration. 



"As through one man sin entered into the world, 

 and death through sin ; and so death passed unto all 

 men, for that all sinned : for until the law sin was 

 in the world ; but sin is not imputed when there is 

 no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam 

 until Moses, even over them that had not sinned 

 after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a 

 figure of him that was to come. But not as the 

 trespass, so also is the free gift. For if by the tres- 

 pass of the one the many died, much more did the 

 grace of God, and -the gift of the grace of the one 

 man Jesus Christ, abound unto the many. 



"And not as through one that sinned, so is the 

 gift ; for the judgment came of one, unto condemna- 



1 Heb. ii. 14, 15. The same word Karapyelis is here, in 

 the Revised Version, translated by bring to nought, and in the 

 previously-quoted passages by abolish. 



2 1st Epistle of John iii. 8. 



