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nation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our 

 God into lasciviousness, and denying the only 

 Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will 

 therefore put you in remembrance, though ye 

 once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved 

 the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward 

 destroyed them that believed not. And the 

 angels which kept not their first estate, but left 

 their own habitation, he hath reserved in ever- 

 lasting chains under darkness unto the judgment 

 of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, 

 and the cities about them in like manner, giving 

 themselves over to fornication, and going after 

 strange flesh, are set forth for an example, 

 suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 

 4-7). 



Whatever may be the truth behind the scenes, 

 Jude, evidently, holds to the orthodox opinion 

 concerning God's right to punish eternally those, 

 who in His judgment deserve and merit it. 



So far we have been dealing with the Old Tes- 

 tament. We now turn to the New Testament for 

 further evidence. The opinion may be obtaining, 

 in some quarters, that the adherents to the doc- 

 trine of endless punishment are forced to the Old 

 Testament for most of their proof. We wish to 

 disabuse the minds of our readers of this opinion. 

 One of the most prominent and authoritative 

 passages, establishing the law of punishment and 



