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passages which would annihilate man by the same 

 argument. I will quote a few from the many. 

 Isaiah says, " Therefore hast thou visited and de- 

 stroyed them, and made all their memory to perish." 

 Job says, " They are destroyed from morning to 

 evening ; they perish forever." In Ecclesiastes we 

 find the following passage : " For the living know 

 that they shall die, but the dead know not any- 

 thing, neither have they any more a reward, for the 

 memory of them is forgotten. All go unto one 

 place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust 

 again." 



David tells us that " the dead praise not the 

 Lord, neither any that go down into silence. . . . 

 He seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and 

 the brutish person perish." St. Peter, in speaking 

 of the wicked, says, " They shall be cut down like 

 grass and wither as the green herb." 



When Christ and His disciples were out in a ship, 

 a severe storm arose, and the disciples went to 

 Christ and said, " Lord save us : we perish." St. 

 Peter, in speaking of the wicked, says, " They un- 

 derstand not, and shall utterly perish in their own 

 corruption." All such passages refer to the sus- 

 pension of the corporal powers and not to the 



