. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The whole could easily be rolled up; henceour Lords command to take up the bedand carry it to the The apartments which appears to be not wholly founded inScripture, since it is characteristic of otherthan Christian nations. It is rather found-ed, probably, on that inherent sense of jus-tice which recognizes the necessity of somepunishment in the future to right the wrongsof the The doctrine is not de


. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The whole could easily be rolled up; henceour Lords command to take up the bedand carry it to the The apartments which appears to be not wholly founded inScripture, since it is characteristic of otherthan Christian nations. It is rather found-ed, probably, on that inherent sense of jus-tice which recognizes the necessity of somepunishment in the future to right the wrongsof the The doctrine is not deniedby the Universalists as a class, nor even byall those who reject the Christian revelation,and substitute reason as their authority inreligion. It is, indeed, only denied by twoclasses—those mystics who hold with theGnostics that the evil principle is situated inthe body, and that hence all sin will drop offand disappear with the body, and those whothink that all punishment is administered bydivine justice in this life, either by the oper-ation of general laws, or the action of spirit-ual Providence. Neither of these opinions,however, have at any time gained any very. linenor of Ancient Koom. even of the wealthier would seem empty toa European eye ; nevertheless the luxuri-ous had rich carpets, couches or divans, andsofas; and sometimes the frames of thesewere inlaid with ivory, and the coverings oftapestry and fine linen carefully the present day in Palestine, silver spoonsare used by the richer people, but they haveneither knives nor forks. And if any ofthem try to imitate European customs, theknives, forks, and spoons are rusty; theplates, dishes, and glasses ill-assorted, dirty,badly arranged, and not in sufficient quan-tity ; the chairs are rickety, and the tablestands on legs rickety and perilous. Future Punishment. Belief in some pun-ishment in another life for the sins commit-ted in this is nearly universal. It is a belief 1 Gen. xv., IT: Neh. iii., 11


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