INDEX.

Adam and Eve, punishment of, 57.

"C was he threatened with endless punishment? 60.

Ahab, punishment of, 83.

Amonites, punishment of, 90.

Analogical reasoning, much of it mere speculation, 45.

Analogy, considered in connexion with retribution, 44-54; argument
from, carried out, 47; not carried out fully by those who hold to
it, 49; common doctrine of retribution contradicts analogy, 50, 51.
Apocrypha teaches future punishment, 158.

Appendix, 147.

Barbarous nations held to punishment after death, 159.

Cain, the murderer, case of, 61-63.

Campbell, Dr., asserts that future retribution is not taught in the Old
Testament, 153; that the Jews learned it of the heathen, 163.
Channing, Dr., his views of retribution examined, 36-39; inconsis-
tency of, 39; he and Prof. Stuart a sample of the clergy at
large, 41.

Children of Israel, punishment of, 75.

Clarke, Dr. A.'s opinion of Matt. v. 22, 104.

Coming of Christ at the destruction of Jerusalem, 113-115.
Curse in consequence of Adam's sin, 59.

Damnation, future, terrors of, do not deter men from sin, 31.

of Gehenna explained, 109, 110; same as Tophet, 111-
113; Christ gave the words only the prophetic sense, 112.
Danger of expecting pleasure in sin, 20.

Day of the Lord, when it came, 116.

Dead, the, personified, 126, 127.

Doctrine of future punishment, origin of, 152.

Doctrines, tendency of, should be considered, 13.

two that principally arrest public attention, 15.

Egyptians, punishment of, 68; they held to future punishment, 159.
Elijah, the prophet, the punishment he preached, 87, 88; argument
from his preaching, 88, 89.

Fears and hopes of men, argument from, 16.

Fear, what kind of, will deter men from sin, 29, 30.

Future punishment, fear of, does not deter men from sin, 31; common
views of, harden the heart, 43; not taught in the Old Testament,
153; of heathen origin, 156-160.

Future retribution considered in relation to the moral nature of man,
13; origin of that doctrine, 152.

Gehenna, supposed to be a place of punishment in the future state,
102; this supposition not correct, 102; damnation of, explained,

109.

Gehenna of fire, meaning of, 104-107.

66 of Tophet the same, 111-113, 145, 146, 149, 150.

God and virtue lovely in themselves, 27.

God, love of, cannot be produced by fear of future punishment, 26.
Greeks, (heathen,) held to future punishment, 159, 160.

Hades, meaning of, 124.

Hell, sense of, 124.

Hell, personified by Isaiah, 126.

Hopes and fears of men, argument from, 16-18.

Hudson, Rev. C., denies that the future state is revealed in the Old
Testament, 156.

Inconsistency of the partialist clergy, 22.

Intermediate state not taught in the Bible, 125; but the contrary,
125, 126.

Jeremiah's description of the punishment of the Jews, 93.

Jews in Jerusalem, punishment of, 91; argument therefrom, 92; pun-
ishment as denounced on them by the Son of God, 96; in the
then existing generation, 113, 115; they got contaminated with
heathen philosophy, 162.

Jewish prophets, modern preachers not like them, 95.

Jezabel's wickedness, 84.

Josephus, in his Antiquities, silent on future punishment, 164.

Judgment seat of Christ, what it is, 109.

"Last days," and "last time," true application of those phrases, 114,

115.

Law given on Mount Sinai, penalty of, 75-80.

Lot's wife, punishment of, 67.

Love of God, reasons for, 25-27.

Milman, Rev. H. H., asserts that future retribution is not taught in

the Old Testament, 155.

Modern preachers not like the Jewish prophets, 95.

Noah did not teach future punishment, 73, 74.

Origin of future punishment, 154.

Paley, Dr., asserts that future punishment is not taught in the Old
Testament, 155.

Parable of rich man and Lazarus, 120-131; certainly a parable,
128; proved from the context, 128–130.
Parkhurst's opinion of Matt. v. 22, 105.
Penalty of law given on Sinai, 75, 80.
Plagues God visited on Pharaoh, 70–72.
Punishment, future, origin of, 152.

of Adam, 57, 61; of the antediluvians, 63-65; of Sodom
and Gomorrah, 66; of Egyptians, 68; denounced on the children
of Israel, 75-80; on king Ahab, 83; of the Ammonites, 90; of
the Jews in Jerusalem, 91-95; as denounced by Christ, 96-100.

Religion does not need the aid of future retribution, 13.
Retribution temporal, belief of salutary, 21.

"" considered in connexion with analogy, 44; with the Scrip.
tures, 55; common doctrine of, defined, 55, 56.
Revelation, book of, 116; compared with book of Daniel, 117.

Sheol personified by Isaiah, 126, 127.

Sinai, law given on, 75, 80.

Sin, danger of expecting pleasure in, 20; should be itself dreaded, 32,
33, 35.

Soul and body destroyed in Gehenna, 131; common interpretation
thereof described, 132; objections to that interpretation, 133-136.
Sterne, Lawrence, on retribution in this life, 165.

Stoics objected to the general belief in future punishments, 160.
Stuart, Prof., just remarks of, 23; singular inconsistency of, 23-25.

Targums, not written so early as supposed, 150.

Temporal judgments only, denounced under the judges, 80.

retribution clearly discernible in the Scriptures, 173.

Tophet and Gehenna the same, 111-113.

Virtue brings an ample reward, 20.