...words. Read the beginning of the ninth chapter, and make reflection on these words: the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither...more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion...

...earth; in that very day his thoughts concerning worldly undertakings perish."* "The living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward," here; "for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now...

...living which are yet alive." The same inference results from verses 5 and 6, " the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing ;...more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten;" and from verse 10, " there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither...

...when they repent and return the money which < they have unlawfully obtained, so is the sinner Judas. "But the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more reward." Who then can prove that Judas was rewarded after he was dead ? These examples are introduced...

...by the bishop as being still more express. For the living know that they shall die : but the (lead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten1 . ^ith respect to this text, would we determine its true import, we must ascertain the sense...

...existence of an immortal soul in man. Again, to quote from the same authority, " The living " know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing ; " neither have they any more a reward." (Eccles. ix. 5.) But if Solomon had believed, or intended to inculcate the belief in an immortal soul,...

...is hope : for a living dog is Li.tter than a dead lion. § w[5] For the living know that they xhall die : but the dead know not. any thing, neither have...more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. § These words have exceedingly perplexed Commentators, and with a good deal of reason, as they are....

...21. My goodness extendeth not to thee : but to the saints that are in the earth. — Ps. xvi. 2, 3. But the dead know not any thing, neither have they...more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten : also their love and their hatred, and their envy is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion...

...19—21. My goodness extendeth not to thee : but to the saints that are in the earth. — Ps. xvi. 2, 3. But the dead know not any thing, neither have they...more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten : also their love and their hatred, and their envy is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion...

...passages I will, for the sake of example, more particularly advert. Solomon says, " The living know that they shall die : but the dead " know not any thing,...they any more a " reward; for the memory of them is forgottenn." This is the strongest of all the various citations which have been brought forward by...