Page 321 Note 1 Dan. xii. 8.
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Page 321 Note 2 Buddhism, by Professor Monier-Williams, p. 120. Cf. p. 118.
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Page 321 Note 3 On Hartmann's "Cosmic Suicide," see Caro's Le Pessimisme, chap. viii.
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Page 322 Note 1 Der alte und der neue Glaube, p. 152.
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Page 322 Note 2 First Principles, pp. 529, 537.
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Page 322 Note 3 Unseen Universe, 5th ed. p. 196. Cf. pp. 165, 166.
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Page 323 Note 1 System of Doctrine, iv. p. 376 (Eng. trans.). Cf. Martensen, Dogmatics, pp. 465, 466 (Eng. trans.).
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Page 323 Note 2 Is fatal even to belief in a personal God. Cf. his Der alte und der neue Glaube, pp. 108-110.
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Page 324 Note 1 Kritik d. r. Ver. p. 561, Erdmann's ed. (Eng. trans. p. 500).
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Page 324 Note 2 This is the point specially made in Whewell's The Plurality of Worlds.
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Page 324 Note 3 Sun and planets.
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Page 324 Note 4 In Mars, and even here, Professor Ball doubts the possibility--Story of the Heavens, p. 190.
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Page 325 Note 1 Professor Ball says: "It may be that, as the other stars are suns, so they too may have other planets circulating round them; but of this we know nothing. Of the stars we can only say that they are points of light, and if they had hosts of planets these planets must for ever remain invisible to us, even if they were many times as large as Jupiter."--Story of the Heavens, p. 95.
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Page 325 Note 2 "The earth is perhaps at this hour the only inhabited globe in the midst of almost boundless space."--Renan, Dialogues, p. 61.
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Page 325 Note 3 Cf. Renan: "For my part I think there is not in the universe any intelligence superior to that of man, so that the greatest genius of our planet is truly the priest of the world, since he is the highest reflection of it."--Dialogues, p. 283. See on Renan's extraordinary eschatology--Note A.
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Page 326 Note 1 Ps. cxlvii. 3, 4; Matt. x. 29-31.
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Page 327 Note 1 Eccles. Institutions, p. 704.
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Page 327 Note 2 Tennyson's Higher Pantheism.
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Page 327 Note 3 This is the argument developed in Chalmers's celebrated Astronomical Discourses. See Note B.--The Gospel and the Vastness of Creation.
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Page 327 Note 4 1 Pet. i. 12; Eph. ii. 10, i. 10, etc.
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Page 328 Note 1 Cf. Fairbairn's Prophecy, chap. iv. sec. 4.
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Page 329 Note 1 This sentence is quoted from Pfleiderer, Religionsphilosophie, ii. p. 206 (Eng. trans.). Cf. Kaftan, Wesen, pp. 67, 71, 171, 173, 214, 213, etc.; Wahrheit, p. 547, etc.
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Page 329 Note 2 Rev. xi. 15.
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Page 329 Note 3 Cf. Cotter Morison's The Service of Man. "The worship of deities has passed .into The Service of Man.' Instead of Theolatry, we have Anthropolatry; the divine service has become human service."--P. 265. As if the truest service of God did not carry in it the service of humanity.
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Page 330 Note 1 Cf. Loring Brace's Gesta Christi; Schmidt's Social Results of Early Christianity (Eng. trans.); Uhlhorn's Christian Charity in the Early Church; Lecky's History of European Morals, etc.
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Page 330 Note 2 Note Mr. Stead, himself an enthusiast in social work, says: "Most good work is done by Christians. Mrs. Besant herself expressed to me that they did very little indeed, and those who did were only those who, like herself, had been brought up Christians."--Church of the Future, p. 9.
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Page 330 Note 3 Note See Appendix on "The Idea of the Kingdom of God."
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Page 330 Note 4 Rom. xiv. 17.
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Page 331 Note 1 Rom. viii. 29 (R.V.).
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Page 331 Note 2 Heb. ii. 5, 9 (R.V.).
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Page 331 Note 3 1 Cor. xv. 35 (R.V.).
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Page 331 Note 4 The idealistic school, on the other hand, speak slightingly of life in the body. "A renewed embodiment," says Mr. Green, "if it means anything, would be but a return to that condition in which we are but parts of nature, a condition from which the moral life is already a partial deliverance."--Works, iii. p. 206. Was Plotinus then right when he blushed that he had a body ?
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Page 332 Note 1 Matt. xxii. 29.
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Page 332 Note 2 1 Cor. xv. 36-38 (R.V.). Cf. Origen, De Principus, ii. 6: For him the resurrection is not the reproduction of any particular organism, but the preservation of complete identity of person, an identity maintained under new conditions, which he presents under the apostolic figure of the growth of the plant from the seed: the seed is committed to the earth, perishes, and yet the vital power which it contains gathers a new frame answering to its proper nature."--Westcott in Dictionary of Christian Biography, iv. p. 121.
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Page 333 Note 1 Unseen Universe, pp. 200-211, and on Swedenborg's views, pp. 63, 64. Thus also Munger in his Freedoms of Faith: "This change necessarily takes place at death. A disembodied state, or state of torpid existence between death and some far-off day of resurrection, an under-world where the soul waits for the reanimation of its body: these are old-world notions that survive only through chance contact with the Christian system."--P. 309. Then, were Hymenaeus and Philetus not right who said that "the resurrection is past already," and in Paul's view overthrew the faith of some 1 (2 Tim. ii. 18.) Cf. Newman Smyth's Old Faiths in New Lights, chap. viii.
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Page 333 Note 2 2 Cor. v. 1, 2 (R.V.).
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Page 333 Note 3 The Scriptures mention also a resurrection of the wicked (John v. 29; Acts xxiv. 15; Rev. xx. 12), likewise, we cannot doubt, connected with Christ's appearance in our nature, but, beyond describing it as a resurrection of condemnation, they throw little light upon its nature.
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Page 333 Note 4 Rom. viii. 21; 2 Pet. iii. 13.
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Page 334 Note 1 Leben Jesu, i. p. 356.
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Page 334 Note 2 That Jesus did not anticipate His immediate return, but contemplated a slow and progressive development of His kingdom, is shown by many indications in the Gospels. Cf. on this subject. Beyschlag, Leben Jesu, i. pp. 354-356; Reuss, Hist. of Christ. Theol. i. pp. 217, 218; Bruce's Kingdom of God, chap. xii.
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Page 334 Note 3 Matt. xxvi. 64 (R.V.). Cf. Dan. vii. 13, 14. In Daniel's vision the "one like unto a son of man" comes with the clouds of heaven to receive a kingdom from the Ancient of Days, not to judge the world.
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Page 335 Note 1 Matt. xvi. 28 (R.V.). Mark has "till they see the kingdom of God come with power" (ix. 1); Luke simply, "till they see the kingdom of God" (ix. 27).
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Page 335 Note 2 Leben Jesu, i. p. 448.
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Page 335 Note 3 Matt. xiii. 30, 49, etc.
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Page 335 Note 4 Acts xvii 31; Rom. ii. 16; 2 Cor. v. 10, etc.
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Page 336 Note 1 Cf. Martensen, Dorner, Van Oosterzee, Luthardt, for illustrations of this thought.
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Page 336 Note 2 De Principiis, i. 6.
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Page 336 Note 3 Der christl. Glaube, ii. p. 505.
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Page 336 Note 4 Salvator Mundi, 11th ed. p. 225.
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Page 336 Note 5 In Memoriam.
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Page 337 Note 1 Dogmatik, iii. p. 108. Ritschl, too, teaches that if there are any who oppose themselves absolutely to the realisation of the Divine plan, their fate would be annihilation--Recht. und Ver. ii. pp. 129, 140-142. But the case is purely hypothetical, iii. p. 363.
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Page 337 Note 2 Forgiveness and Law, p. 147.
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Page 338 Note 1 Isa. iii. 10, 11 (R.V.).
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Page 338 Note 2 Mr. Greg also has his doctrine of future retribution. Must not a future world in itself--the condition of 'spiritual corporeity' alone--bring with it dreadful retribution to the wicked, the selfish, and the weak? In the mere fact of their cleared perceptions, in the realisation of their low position, in seeing themselves at length as they really are, in feeling that all their work is yet to do, in beholding all those they loved and venerated far before them, away from them, fading in the bright distance, may lie, must lie, a torture, a purifying fire, in comparison with which the representations of Dante and Milton shrivel into baseness and inadequacy"--Creed of Christendom, p. 280.
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Page 339 Note 1 Maudsley says: "When we reflect how much time and what a multitude of divers experiences have gone to the formation of a character, what a complex product it is, and what an inconceivably intricate interworking of intimate energies, active and inhibitive, any display of it in feeling and will means, it must appear a gross absurdity for anyone to aspire to estimate or appraise all the component motives of a particular act of will. . . . To dissect any act of will accurately, and then to recompose it, would be to dissect and recompose humanity."--Body and Will, p. 29. But see below.
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Page 340 Note 1 Rom. ii. 12 (R.V.).
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Page 340 Note 2 "I cannot tell whether some souls may not resist God for ever, and therefore may not be for ever shut out from His presence, and I believe that to be without God is 'hell'; and that in this sense there is a hell beyond the grave; and that for any soul to fall even for a time into this condition, though it be through its own hardened impenitence and resistance of God's grace, is a very awful and terrible prospect; and that in this sense there maybe for some souls an endless hell."--Mercy and Judgment, p. 485.
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Page 340 Note 3 Matt. xix. 28; Acts iii. 21, 23 (R.V.).
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Page 340 Note 4 John x. 32.
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Page 340 Note 5 Matt. vi. 23, xxv. 41.
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Page 341 Note 1 See Note C.--Alleged Pauline Universalism.
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Page 341 Note 2 Matt. vii. 13; 2 Thess. i. 9; 2 Cor. ii. 15; 2 Pet. ii. 12, etc.
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Page 341 Note 3 Matt. iii. 12, xiii. 30, 50; John xv. 6, etc.
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Page 341 Note 4 1 Thess.v.3.
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Page 342 Note 1 John iii. 36 (R.V.).
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Page 343 Note 1 Life in Christ, chap. xxii,
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Page 343 Note 2 1 Pet. iii. 18-20, iv. 6.
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Page 344 Note 1 2 Cor. vi. 2 (R.V.).
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Page 344 Note 2 E.g. Matt. xxv. 31-46; 2 Cor. v 10. Rev. xx. 12.
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Page 344 Note 3 Heb. ix. 27.
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