vi No Eternal Death. 103 



view of this use of the word, it cannot be maintained 

 that the eternal punishment denounced and the 

 eternal life promised, in Our Lord's description of 

 the Judgment, are necessarily of equal duration. 



In that description of the Judgment, alone in 

 the Old and New Testaments, is eternal punishment 

 mentioned ; and eternal destruction (6'Aefy>os) is also 

 mentioned once, and only once. 1 It is, however, 

 remarkable, and cannot be without significance, 

 that although eternal life is often mentioned in Holy 

 Scripture, there is no mention of eternal death ; the 

 use of this expression is carefully avoided, even 

 where it appears to be required for the symmetry of 

 the sentence. I quote the following, italicising some 

 important words : 



" He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh 

 reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit 

 shall of the Spirit reap eternal life." 2 



"To them that by patient continuance in well- 

 doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, 

 eternal life ; but unto them that are factious, and obey 

 not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and 

 indignation, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of 

 man that worketh evil ; but glory and honour and 

 peace to every man that worketh good." 3 



" That as sin reigned in death, even so might grace 

 reign through righteousness unto eternal life through 

 Jesus Christ our Lord." 4 



1 2 Thess. i. 9. 2 Gal. vi. 8. 3 Rom. ii. 7-10. 



4 Rom. v. 21. 



