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Behold ! I shew you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be 
changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall 
be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal 
must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on 
incorruption, and this mortal fchall have put on immortality, then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, ‘ Death is swallowed up by 
victory. O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?” 
(First Epist. to the Corinthians, ch. xv. v. 20.) 
But in order to render the matter under consideration more unquestion¬ 
ably clear and certain, we will compare St. John’s account of the first and 
second resurrection states, as it lies in the Apocalypse, with St. Matthew’s 
description of the day of judgment and other passages allusive to it, to be 
met with in the sacred pages. 
CHAP. XX. 
1. And I saw an Angel come down from heaven, having the key of 
the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hands. 
2. And he laid hold on the Dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil 
and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. 
2. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a 
seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand 
years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 
4 . And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given 
to them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of 
Christ, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, 
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in 
their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 
5 . (But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were 
finished.) This is thej^rs^ resurrection. 
. 6- Blessed and holy is he that hath part in th efirst resurrection: on such 
the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God, and of 
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 
f. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out 
of prison. 
8. And there shall go out to deceive the nations, which are upon the 
