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flesh, that ALL which Thou hast given Him, He 

 should give to them eternal life." 1 



Our review of the teaching of Holy Scripture 

 respecting the fate of the rejected of the present 

 dispensation would be imcomplete and unsatisfactory 

 if we were to omit the Apocalypse, which I believe 

 to be the work of the Beloved Disciple, and rightly 

 admitted into the canon of Scripture. Its testimony 

 on the present subject is more than usually uncertain 

 and apparently contradictory. The following passage 

 is in this respect typical of the entire book. I 

 italicise some words : 



" I heard a great voice out of the throne, saying, 

 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he 

 shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, 

 and God himself shall be with them, and shall be 

 their God ; and he shall wipe away every tear from 

 their eyes ; and death shall be no more : neither shall 

 there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more ; the 

 first things are passed away. And he that sitteth on 

 the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. . . . 

 He that overcometh shall inherit these things 

 I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But for 

 the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and 

 murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and 



1 John xvii. 2. Both the Authorised and the Revised 

 Versions miss the significance of this passage by not repeating 

 the emphatic word all. It is pointed out in Allin's Uni- 

 versalism Asserted, pp. 230, 231. 

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