1. Sleep (of death) (Koiunois).

2. To sleep (kalεúdεiv).

3. Death (0ávaros).

4. Το die (θνήσκειν).

5. Dead (VEкpóc).

6. To die (TEλEvtāv).

7. To give up the ghost (EKTVÉELv).

BUT if, as was above intimated, leaving off the delusive custom of substituting imagination in the room of experience, we would confine ourselves to what we do know and understand; if we would argue only from that, and from that form our expectations-it would appear, at first sight, that as no probability of living beings ever ceasing to be so, can be concluded from the reason of the thing; so none can be collected from the analogy of nature :

because we cannot trace any living beings beyond death. But as we are conscious that we are endued with capacities of perception and of action, and are living persons, what we are to go upon is, that we shall continue so till we foresee some accident, or event, which will endanger those capacities, or be likely to destroy us; which death does in no wise appear to be.-BP. BUTLER's Analogy, Part I, c. I.

Death may be defined simply, as that condition of a once living structure in which no vital transformation of force can be any more effected. It is a state in which waste and decay are not compensated for by repair.

The organic matter of which a dead body is composed follows unchecked its natural tendency to return to an inorganic condition. The same would have happened of course, if life had continued. For living structures decay, as dead ones do, although the fashion of the decay is in the two cases different. in death, nothing takes the place of that which is lost, and the material body as an individual disappears.

But now

It may be said, that, after all, it is but an alteration of language, to say that life is a correlative expression of physical force; that WE KNOW AS LITTLE AS EVER of the means by which the transformation of, say, heat into mechanical motion, is effected by a muscle, and, still less, if possible, of the transformation by which it is made to happen in obedience to the will; that the old notion of inherent vital force is almost or quite as rational as the new one, seeing that we know so little of either. But still it is a step in advance to be able to discern not a mere dependence only of life upon other forces, but a distinct correlation the one with the other, and thus, in some degree at least to remove life from that isolated position which it has so long assumed.—DR. KIRKE'S Physiology, edited by W. Morrant Baker, Esq., F.R.C.S.

I. SLEEP (OF DEATH).

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up

the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept (tív kekoiμnμévwv) arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.-Matt. xxvii. 50-54.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping (кouwμévove) for sorrow, and said unto them, Why sleep ye? (rí кałɛúdɛTɛ;) rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.-Luke, xxii. 44-46.

Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judæa again. His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. These things said he and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth (ккoiμŋrai); but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep (ivα ¿žvπvíow). Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep (εi KEKоiμŋTα), he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death (Tepi Tov Oavárov): but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep (πEpì τñs KOLμýσews Toũ vπvov). Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead (àπélavɛ). And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die ("va åño¤ávwμev) with him. Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. Now Bethany was nigh unto Jeru

unto him, I know that he

salem, about fifteen furlongs off: and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him but Mary sat still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died (ovк av ÉTεvýkε). But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead (kầv åñoðávy), yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die (μỳ ảπoláry). Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. And when she had so said, she went her way and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him. Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died (ovк àv åñéðavε). When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jews, Behold how he loved him! not this man, which opened the that even this man should not have died (μỳ ȧño¤ávy)? Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead (TOũ TεŮVηKÓTOC), saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been

Jesus wept. Then said the And some of them said, Could eyes of the blind, have caused

It was

dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead (ὁ τεθνηκὼς) was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead (ỏ тεðvŋкws) came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.-John, xi. 7-46.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him : and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep (εкoμýn).— Acts, vii. 54-60.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping (kopwμɛvoc) between two soldiers, bound with two chains and the keepers before the door kept the prison.-Acts, xii. 6.

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that