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future life in the Old Testament, it may be necessary 

 to refer to the actual connection between the doctrines 

 of the Holy Scriptures and the instinct of immortality 

 referred to in the preceding pages. In Genesis man 

 appears at first as endowed with an immortality both 

 physical and spiritual. This tradition of primitive 

 immortality, and the instinctive longing for an im- 

 mortal life implied in it, the Christian should hold as 

 not a possession of the Hebrews only, but of the whole 

 human race ; and it should be, as it is, next to the 

 belief in God, the second great doctrine of universal 

 religion. The promise of a Redeemer to restore the 

 immortality lost by the fall, is the next doctrine of the 

 revealed religion, and, as we have seen, this also is 

 embodied in all the creeds of the nations, though in 

 strangely distorted forms. The translation of Enoch 

 in antediluvian times is another primitive testimony 

 of the Old Testament, which, if we regard it as an 

 historical fact, must have served to deepen the belief 

 in the future life both of body and soul. It is to be 

 observed that all these primitive testimonies go to 

 establish not only the immortality of the soul, but also 

 of the body; that is, the doctrine of the resurrection. 

 It is clear, therefore, that these doctrines lie at the 

 base of the religion of the Old Testament, and that 

 without them it would be nothing. If they are not 

 often dwelt upon in the Hebrew Scriptures, this is 

 because they were not doubted or disbelieved even by 

 the heathen, and because there was more need to in- 

 sist on the immediate beliefs and duties of life. 



