I Cor. v. 5. Deliver fuch an one to Satan, 8.5 xɛgov ins σapuos, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be faved, &c. Some bodily disease was inflicted, in order to produce repentance and reformation. See 1 Tim. i. 20; 2 Cor. xii. I 7. Diseafes, in popular language, were attributed by the Jews to Satan; Luke xiii. 6. Grotius, on 1 Cor. v. 5, writes, pari modo dicitur quo, Javalete Tas πράξεις το σωματος. Rom. viii. 13.

1 Tim. vi. 9. Hurtful defires, which drown men, εις ολεθρον και απωλειαν, in deftru&tion and perdition. This is explained in the next verse, 10, to mean, "erring from the faith, and piercing themselves "through with 66 forrows." many Drowning men "in destruction," is a fimilitude taken from a punishment that was common in the east.

Matt. xviii. 6;

See Grotius,

1 Kings xiii. 24; 2 Maccab. xii. 4. Whitby, and Doddridge, on 1 Tim. vi. 9.

1 Theff. v. 3. Then fudden, oλegos, deftruction fhall come upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. Oλegos, id eft, pœna, ut 1 Tim. vi. 9. Grot.

2 Theff. i. 9. These shall fuffer punishment, even, oλegov aivov, everlasting deftruction, (or death for the age) from the face of the Lord, &c. Grotius obferves upon this text, explicat qualis fit futura pœna. nempe qua gravior nulla. Oxe@gov, ut i Theff. v. 3. alibi, aπwλeav, Matt. vii. 13. Chandler remarks, "that the word we render destruction, fignifies the

lafting deftruction is, I think, to be understood not "of an entire extinction of the thinking principle, "which the word never implies; but only an entire "extinction of that life which they receive by the "refurrection, or by the re-union of foul and body."

In confidering the word alwvios, we have fhewn, that merely from the application of this adjective to future punishment or happiness, no conclufion can be fairly drawn for the abfolute eternity of either. This adjective, therefore, cannot fix the meaning of oλ005 to endless death, or annihilation. Let us enquire, then, into the true fenfe of oλegos. In the first text quoted above, it fignifies bodily disease inflicted to produce reformation. In the fecond, it denotes temporary evil and anguifh of mind, and lofs of the advantages of a chriftian faith and practice. In the third, it means fevere punishment, without giving any idea of its duration. In the laft paffage, it expresses a grievous punishment for the age, that will be terminated by a fecond death. The connection, and the words din Tiσ8 preceding, appear to require this ftrong fenfe, as in other connections it has other meanings. None of these instances, which are all in which oλegos occurs in the New Testament, juftify the idea of annihilation, or of eternal death.

Schleufner, upon this word oλegos, obferves,1. Proprie: perditor, homo perniciofus. Hefychius: ολεθρος, πονηρος. 2. Pernicies, exitium, interitus, pœna. 3. Dolor, vexatio, cruciatus.

In the Septuagint, oλegos never fignifies annihilation, or endless death. It is ufed there only eleven times in the canonical books, in no one of which has it the fense of extinction of being; nor does it ever go further than to denote the punishment of temporal death. It may be useful to produce the feveral inftances in which it occurs, in order to diveft the mind of that affociation of the ideas of abfolute destruction and annihilation of life, or existence, which is frequently annexed to this term. It fignifies, devaftatio, Ezek. vi. 14; xiv. 16: vaftatio, Prov. xxi. 7; Jer. xlviii. 3: vaftator, Jer. xlviii. 8, 32: pavor, Prov. i. 26: ftrepitus, Jer. xxv. 30; li. 55: urtica, Hofea ix. 6.; and it is only 1 Kings xiii. 34, that it fignifies destroying by death; (comp. xiv. 10, 11, 20; XV. 29;) which is allo the interpretation of the adjeftive ολέθριον, that is really given 1 Kings xx. 42, where God fays, "because thou haft let go out of thine hand a man,

onepov, appointed to utter deftruction; therefore thy life fhall go for his life, and thy people for his "people." See ver. 39.

Oxelgos is alfo explained to fignify death in the Apocrypha. Wifd. of Solom. i. 12, 14, xviii. 13; Ecclus. xxxix. 30; 2 Maccab. xiii. 6, 7. It means to destroy as a nation, 2 Maccab. vi. 12, which often fignifies only scattering the people among other nations, reducing their number, and bringing them into contempt.

The above, I think, are all the places in which φλεθρος occurs in the Septuagint.

Now, as this word is never used, either in the Old or the New Teftament, to fignify any greater punishment than pain, whether of body or mind, terminating in death, from which all Chriftians believe there will be a refurrection; upon what fair grounds can it be interpreted of annihilation, or extinction of life, or being; or any thing more than the fecond death, concerning which we shall inquire presently?

Even the compound verb eoλ Opeuw, though joined with awaλup, is used in the Septuagint to fignify only, driving the Jews out of their land, reducing them to a small number, and making their condition an afflictive one. See Deut. xxviii. 20, 45, 46, 6r to 64. Ežoλ00pɛuw, repeated, is alfo employed to Εξολοθρεύω, exprefs only driving out the Cananites from their land; Joshua xvii. 13. And oλobpeuw, repeated, does likewife mean only to drive out, in Joshua iii. 10.

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SECTION IV.-Пug.

Matt. iii. 10; vii. 19; Luke iii. 9. Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is cut down and caft, es wug, into the fire.

Matt. xiii. 40. As the tares are gathered and burnt, up, in the fire, fo will it be in the end of this world, or age.

Matt. xiii. 42, 50. Will caft them into a furnace, 78 upos, of fire; there will be weeping, and gnafhing of teeth. Comp. Ifa. xxxi. 9.

John xv. 6. If a man abide not in me, he shall be caft out as a fevered branch, and shall wither, and

men fhall gather together fuch branches, and caft them, es wug, into the fire, and they shall be burned. Comp. Ezek. ch. xv; also the two following texts.

1 Cor. iii. 13. Every man's work will be manifeft, for the great day will fhew it, becaufe it will be revealed, up, with fire; and, To wug, the fire will try every man's work of what kind it is.

1 Cor. iii. 15. If any man's work be burnt, he will fuffer lofs; but he himself will be faved, or preserved, yet fo as, δια upos, through fire. Comp. Amos iv. 11. The expreffion is proverbial; will escape with danger and difficulty, fo as through the midst of a conflagration.-Newcome.

2 Theff. i. 8. The Lord Jefus fhall be manifested from heaven, with his mighty angels, ev up λoys, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on thofe that know not GOD, &c.

Heb. x. 27. If we fin wilfully, there remaineth at certain fearful looking-for of judgment, na ugos λos, and fiery (or great) indignation, which will devour the adverfaries. Comp. Acts v. 17; xiii. 45.

2 Pet. iii. 7. But the heavens and the earth are kept, wug, for fire against the day of judgment, &c.

2 Pet. iii. 10. The day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pafs away with a great noife, and the elements will be greatly heated. and diffolved, soixeia de navorμeva, the earth, alfo, and the works on it will be burnt up, κατακαήσεται. Coming as a thief, paffing away with a noife, the elements diffolving with heat, the earth, and the