A FEW SHORT EXTRACTS,

From Essays on the Resurrection of the Soul, by GEO. BUSH, Professor of Hebrew in the New-York City University. Inserted for the purpose of showing the corroborating opinion of men of deep research with our own on this subject.

NOTE (A.) PAGE 273.

"The same truth is taught by our Lord's words to the dying thief': "Verily I say unto thee, this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." Thou-assuredly a designation of the person, for his body was to remain suspended on the cross. This person is denoted in scripture language by the soul." Bush on the Soul, page 113.

"In the New Testament, tho' the doctrine of the general resurrection is so much insisted upon, and such frequent mention is made of the resurrection of the dead, yet we nowhere read of the resurrection of the same body. Our Lord saith (John, v. 28,) ‘All that are in the graves shall hear his voice and come forth;' and what are in the graves but the dead bodies? But if this is any proof of the resurrection of the body, it proveth too much, that the dead bodies can hear and come forth without their souls; for I presume it will hardly be said that the souls are in the graves too. It will also prove that the very same bodies, whether swollen with dropsies or wasted by consumptions, shall come forth in the same form and manner as they are laid in the graves. All that are in the graves, is nothing more than a periphrasis for the dead, they who have done good, and they who have done evil, which cannot possibly be applied to dead bodies." Bush's Extract from Bishop Newton, page 139.

NOTE (C.) PAGE 354.

"Justice requires that the same persons shall rise again, but not with the same bodies; for our bodies are not ourselves.' Again: Anastasis," the word constantly used throughout the New Testament for the resurrection, signifies a rising again, a life after death;

another state of the same person after the present; but never once, that I know of, signifies or even implies the resurrection of the same body." Bush on the Soul, page 137.

NOTE (D.) PAGE 356.

"For it is obvious that the body, as such, is not the subject of sensation; this power must inhere in the uxn, (soul,) which forsakes the body at death, and which can never be proved to have lost its sensitive attributes by such a change of relation. The whole force of the evidence bears in the contrary direction." the Soul, page 110.

NOTE (E.) PAGE 357.

Bush on

"If his material body had been raised unchanged, he would have been quickened in the flesh, which he certainly was not. He was quickened in a spiritual body, as truly as he was put to death in a material body; and this is indicated by the original terms σapxí (in the flesh) and Tvsúμa, (by the spirit) which are grammatically parrallel with each other." Bush on the Soul, page 55.

NOTE (F.) PAGE 359.

"It will be observed that he does not say, in express terms, ́A spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have,' but, as ye see me have;' where the original is not the common word for 'see,' (sïdɛrɛ), but another term, (wgETTE) which implies more of a mental perception, equivalent to our consider, contemplate, apprehend. A spirit hath not flesh and bones as I seem to you to have-as you contemplate me as having." Bush on the Resurrection of Christ, pages 44, 45.

NOTE (G.) PAGE 363.

"We do not refuse to acknowledge the possession by angels of some kind of bodies. What greater difficulty in conceiving the same endowment in regard to translated human beings? There is a spiritual body. It is, then, body, and not mere spirit, to which the reasoning of the apostle relates." Bush on the Soul, page 118.

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