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resting upon the opposition, that when Jesus; 

 used terms and words with which His Jewish 

 audience was familiar, as implying eternal 

 punishment, He not only informed them of His. 

 doctrine, but confirmed a doctrine already 

 believed and taught. 



And that the Jewish mind had received thi& 

 doctrine, its enemies shall witness. 



E. H. Plumptre, D. D., in his eschatological 

 work entitled ** Spirits in Prison" in a quotation 

 from Dr. Farrar, (who is also devoted to the 

 " wider hope")? makes the Rosh Hasshanah 

 say: "But heretics (probably, i.e., Christians) 

 and informers and Epicureans, who have denied 

 the law, or the resurrection of the dead, or who 

 have separated from the customs of the congre- 

 gation, or who have caused their fear in the land 

 of the living, who have sinned, or caused many 

 to sin, as Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, all such go 

 down to hell and are judged forever." (Also 

 McCaul, Old Paths, p. 410). 



Also, the third deduction from Talmudic pas- 

 sages Dr. Plumptre quotes, is'*' that the incurably 

 evil were punished for a period which was 

 described by a phrase that was popularly, if not 

 strictly, synonymous with " everlasting." 



To prove that the eternity of future punish- 

 ment was the opinion of the learned religious 

 classes, I can do no better than to quote Johanan 



