CONTENTS. NOTE B.-The Opinions of the Jews concerning II. THE RESURRECTION A CONTINUOUS REALITY NOTE A.-Christ's Argument with the Saddu- NOTE B.- Resurrection now and henceforth. NOTE A.-Christ's Resurrection not completely manifested till his Ascension. — John xx. 14-17 69 NOTE F.-The Redemption of our Body.—Rom. NOTE C.-The Resurrection at Christ's Coming. VI. JUDGMENT A PRESENT AND PERPETUAL REALITY PREFACE. WHAT the Scriptures say, as distinguished from what they seem to say, or have been supposed to say, is an inquiry which Christian study must continually prosecute. Probably no subject can be named upon which a greater variety and a greater uncertainty of belief prevail than the Resurrection, its nature, its time, and its manner. The subject is, indeed, of such a nature that a careful thinker must often decline the conjectures of speculation, and wait for the disclosures of experience. And yet some positive statements have been made by Divine Revelation. To read these out of the Scriptures, as far as they go, carefully separating them from the opinions and glosses that have been read into them, is an undertaking from which we may expect good results. The vagueness and bewilderment that seem to embarrass Christian thought upon the Resurrection apparently demand a scholarly reinvestigation of the subject, whose results shall be put in a condensed and comparatively popular form for general reading. Such an attempt is, however, beset with difficulty, partly by the inseparable connection of the subject with such doctrines as that of the so-called "Second Advent of Christ," and the "Last Judgment," partly by the abundance of texts which make dark corners for difficulty to retreat to when cleared away from the main path. As to the latter, the broom has been carried into such corners by critical notes appended to the successive chapters, so as to leave the main course of thought unincumbered for the reader. As to the former, it has been necessary to devote three chapters to an exposition of the indissolubly cohering subjects of the Advent and the Judgment. Those readers who are not at once discour |