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Postscript.

Some have said that, as in the Scriptures the word eternal is applied to God, if the word be not equivalent to everlasting, a limit is placed to the existence of God. But Scripture saith that God is eternal and everlasting; that sin's death is eternal but not everlasting. Scripture shews that God is everlasting. See Exodus iii., 14; 1 Timothy, vi., 16, &c.

The words "everlasting fire" at the end of the Athanasian Creed should be "eternal fire." The adjective for fire is the same as in St. Matthew xxv., 46.

Some have said that Satan is the author of the doctrine of such an ending to sin's punishment. These should shew that Adam knew clearly that endlessness was attached to the words he had heard, "Ye shall surely die." If he did not know this, the objection is irrelevant. What Satan urged was, 'What you understand by that word die shall not happen."

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