...that is alive, is better than the most generous of all beasts, the lion, which is now dead. IX. 5. For the living know that they shall die : but the dead...not any thing, neither have they any more a reward. However, in respect of a better life and the glorious estate of the soul, the case is quite contrary...

...Sanctos una cum Cliristo regnantes."_Scss. xxv. De invocationc, &c. Sanctorum, p. 305. Paris, 1834. $ "The living know that they shall die, but THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANVIHING ; neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten ; and their love,...

...wrote this passage, was a Sadducee, and did not believe in a future existence. He says, verse 5, " For the living know that they shall die ; but the dead know not any thing, neitJter have they any more a reward,for the memory of them is perished." If we admit this to be inspiration,...

...that is joined to all the living there is hope : for a living dog is better than 5 a dead lion. For he wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon thin?, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is 6 forgotten. Also their love,...

...and ' they that refuse the waters of Christ, are overflowed with the flood of ' the world, that lieth in wickedness. They that asked counsel of stocks '...neither have they any more a reward : for the memory of is forgotten, Eccles. ix. 5, " Wo to the rebellious children, saith " the Lord, that take counsel,...

...annihilation both ol the just and unjust. But it refers only to the body in its lifeless state. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward. — ' Eccl. 9 : 5. If this means any farther than the...

...thing under Ihe sun, than to eat, and to drink, and In be merry. For there is one event unto all : l production of the orreapondent expressions, without...sensation, or conseioutesa of effort. On awaking But he who should repeat these words, with this assurance, to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation,...

...which together constitute the Old Testament 1 Did he speak truth or falsehood, when he affirmed, " The living know that they shall die ; but the dead know not any thing 1" (ix. 5.) Does this phraseology express the sense of the pagan phraseology, which affirms of the...

...so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward:" a voluptuary—he who had resolved to pass his mortal...

...the utter unconsciousness of the grave. " A living dog," he says, " is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die ; but the dead know not any thing." * And further, " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor...