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Old Testament: "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth, and is laid low : Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? "—Job xiv, 7-10.
"If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, till my re lease should come. Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.—Job. xiv, 13-15.
k But I know that my Avenger liveth, and that at the last He will appear above (my) grave: and after my skin hath been thus de stroyed, with out my body shall I see God: and whom I shall see for myself, and mine desire to the work of thy hands"— Job. xiv, 25-27.
" For thou dolt not commit me to Sheol, Nor sufferest thy faithful ones to see the pit. Thou teachest me the pathway of life; In thy presence is fulness of joys.
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Fair gifts in thy right hand forever." Psalm xvi, 10-11 (trans!. by H. H. Furness).
" Like sheep they sink into Sheol Death rules them, terrors affright them; They go down straight into the grave Sheol as their mansion forever." Psalm xlix, 14-15 (transl. by Dr. Cheyne).
"And many of them that sleep in the land of dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."— Daniel 'di, 2.
*For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. . . . The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction : i but they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace bath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering."— Wisdom of Solomon ii, 23 — 1-6.
2 Baruch li, 7-10, 12 (quoted from R. H. Charles in his Eschatology): " Those who have been saved by their works, and to whom the law has been now a hope, and understanding and expectation, and wis dom a confidence, to them wonders will appear in their time. For they will behold the world which is now invisible to them, and they will behold the time which is now hidden from them. And again, time will not age them. For in the heights of that world shall they dwell, and they shall be made like unto the angels, and be made equal to the stars, and they shall be changed tnto every form they desire, from beauty into loveliness, and from light into the splendor of glory. . . . More
over there will then be excellency in the righteous surpassing that in the angels." Book of Enoch xxii (quoted from R. H. Charles): •And thence I went to another place, and Uriel showed me in the West another great and high mountain of hard rock. And there were four hollow places in it, deep and very smooth: three of them were dark and one bright, and there was a fountain of water in its midst. And I said: How smooth are these hollow places, and deep and dark to view. Then Raphael answered one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgment and till their appointed period, till the great judgment (comes) upon them. I saw the spirit of a dead man making suit, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael, the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven? And he answered me saying: This is the spirit which went forth from Abel whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is de stroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men. Then I asked regarding all the hollow places, why is one separated from the other? And he answered me saying: These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And this division has been made for the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water. And this has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgment has been executed upon them in their lifetime. Here their spirits will be set apart in this great pain, till the great day of judgment, scourgings and torments of the accursed forever, so that (there may be) retribution for their spirits. There shall He bind them forever. And this division has been made for the spirits of those who make their snit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners. And this has been made for the spirits of men who shall not be righteous but sinners, who are godless, and they of the lawless shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be punished on the day of judgment, nor shall they be raised from thence?