The following should have appeared as a note, predicated on the word graves, found in John 5: 28. It is copied from "A summary view of the Millennial Church."

Mis i. e. monuments or places of remembrance. Much stress is laid upon the word graves, as evidence that Christ alluded particularly to the natural body; but the original word which is translated graves, was used by the ancient Greeks to signify places of remembrance, called by the Romans monumenta, in English monuments, which is a more correct translation than graves. But if those only who have monuments erected to their memory are to be raised, the number must be very small in proportion to the whole human race; for a vast portion have never even had the honor of being put into graves. Jesus evidently used the expression in a figurative sense, to show that the time was approaching in which all the fallen race, in their various places and orders, would be brought to a remembrance or consideration of their lost state, and of what they had done; and that their past lives, with all their sins would come into remembrance and be clearly laid open to their view; and being waked up to a sense of feeling, by the sound of the everlasting gospel, which is the voice of the Son of God, they would either come to the resurrection of life, by honestly confessing their sins, and obeying the gospel; or to the resurrection of damnation [or condemnation] by obstinately refusing to comply with the calls of the gospel, as many are now doing, contrary to their own light and conviction.