For thou wilt not give over my soul to Sheol; Nor suffer thy pious one to see corruption.
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A later Psalm 49 (48) :14-15, of the Psalter of the Sons of Korah, consigns the wicked to She'ol and redeems the just: Like sheep to She'ol they are driven; Death shepherds them; The just shall rule over them in the Their beauty is for She'ol to waste out of its a;rellinsi.
ir Surely God will save my soul from the power of She ol; For He will take me.
Asaph's Psalm 73(72) : 24,25, yearns for im mortality. David sings that his joy will be complete in the beatific vision of God, after his awaking from the sleep of death (Psalm 17: 15).
8. Maccabees. During the tortures they underwent, at command of Antiochus IV (s.c. 175-164), the Maccabees appealed to the hope of resurrection as their stay (2 Macc. vii, 9). The third of the seven sons put forth his tongue to be torn out, and hands to be lopped off; and said: 'These I despise, for I hope to receive them back again from Him' (2 Macc. vii, 11). The fourth son taunted the king: "It is better to be put to death by men . . . so as to be raised up by God. To thee resurrection will not be unto life' (2 Macc. vii, 14). The author of 2 Maccabees narrates that Judas sent a large offering to Jerusalem, so as to have sacrifices offered in expiation for the sins of the slain; and adds: "In this he acted quite rightly and religiously, having in mind the resurrection. For had he not deemed that they, who had fallen, would rise again, it would have been useless and silly to pray for the dead' (2 Macc. xii, 43, 44).
9. Apocrypha. Though not among the in spired and canonical books of the Bible, the apocrypha bear historical witness to the faith of the period that immediately preceded the foundation of Christianity. In 1 Enoch, Sec tion II, The Parables, cc. 37-71, written B.c. 94-79, many details of the resurrection are enumerated. The earth shall give back that which has been laid away in it; She'ol shall give back that which it has received' (IL 1). All mankind shall rise. The angels shall measure the secrets of all. Not one shall escape. 'On the day of the Elect One, not one shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits, not one can be destroyed' (lxi, 5). 4 Ezra, 31-44, supposed to have been drawn from an Ezra Apocalypse written about B.c 30, is ample and detailed in regard to the universal resur rection and last judgment. 'The earth shall restore those that sleep in her; and the dust, those that rest therein' The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin, x, 7-10, written B.c. 137-107, teaches that all will rise, 'some unto glory and some unto shame; God will 'convict Israel through the chosen ones of the Gentiles.'
HI. New Testament Teaching. The time and details of the Parousia are treated else where. (See EscHatocoov). This article is limited to the fact and manner of the resur rection. The current Jewish eschatological be lief, at the beginning of the Christian era, is manifested by Martha in regard to her brother Lazarus: know that he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day' (John xi, 24).
1. Doctrine of Jesus. Our Lord repeated the Old Testament teaching in this matter. The Sadducees "said there was no resurrection,' and denied even the immortality of the soul fJosephus, Judaicc) XVIII, i, 4). They proposed to Jesus the case of a woman, who by the Mosaic law of go'el had married seven brothers, one after the other. "At the resurrection, to whom of the seven will she be wife P In reply, our Saviour blamed them because of ignorance of Scripture. For at the resurrection there will be no marrying nor being married; but they will be as angels in heaven.' The glorified body will not be subject to the appetites of the flesh. The Sadducees grossly caricature the glory of the resur rected body. Its joy is of God. 'He is not a God of the dead, but of the living' (Matt. xxii, 23-32; Luke xx, 28-38). Besides, Jesus claimed that, as Son of Man, He would be the Judge of men (John v, 23-27). He added: "A time is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. . . . A time is com itig when all who are in their graves shall hear His voice. And they shall come forth they that have done good, unto a resurrection of life; they that have done evil, unto a resur rection of condemnation' (John v, 28, 29). This resurrection unto life, Jesus promises, He Himself will accomplish in the case of those that believe in Him (John vi, 39, 40) ; follow the impulses of God's grace (John vi, 44) ; eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man (John vi, 45). He said to Martha "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in me shall live, though he die; yea, he shall never die, who lives and believes in me' (John xi, 25, 26). The charitable shall receive their 'reward at the resurrection of the good' (Luke xiv, 14). The unjust also will rise from the dead to be punished for their sins (Matt. v, 29, 30; Mark, ix, 43-49) ; they will go soul and body to hell (Matt. x, 28). At the Parousia, the risen just will stand at the ri ht, and the risen unjust at the left of the Ju He will pronounce sentence of damnation of the latter to eternal fire, and of welcome of the former to everlasting bliss (Matt. xxv, 31-46).