immortal be also perishable.

The soul when attacked by death cannot

To those who knew these words, who taught them, and argued about them,

was sent a 'Teacher from God', and standing in their midst, He reiterated the

fact that Plato was wrong, that the soul could be destroyed, that it would

perish.  What would any of that day have thought of the suggestion to make

such words convey the sense of endless misery so diametrically opposed to

their meaning?  Would he not have been justified in replying in the language

of a well-known Greek scholar, Dr. Weymouth:

'My mind fails to conceive a grosser misinterpretation of language than

when the five or six strongest words which the Greek tongue possesses,

signifying "destroy", or "destruction", are explained to mean

maintaining an everlasting but wretched existence.  To translate black

as white is nothing to this'.

We believe sufficient has been shown to establish the fact that, in the

usage and meaning of apollumi and apoleia, destruction, utter and real, is

the true meaning, and that this is the wages of sin.

It will be remembered that certain words have

been considered with regard to their primary etymological meaning, their

secondary or figurative meaning, and their usage.  We now provide a

concordance to the subject, giving as full particulars as is possible in the

limited space.