`I see you have copies of the Septuagint on your shelves for sale. Well, in Genesis 1:20, 21, 24 and 2:7 you will

see that the same words are used of `the moving creature that hath life', `every living creature that moveth'

including `great whales', `the living creature' which included `cattle and creeping thing' and `man became a

living soul', namely psuche and zoe . Yet you refuse us for saying just that'!

This is true also of the original Hebrew, and the A.V. has placed in the margin of Genesis 1:20 `soul' but all to no

purpose for the Devil's lie `blinds the minds of them that believe not' even though they use the A.V. with its margin.

Man sees in the term `a living soul' a synonym for immortality; not so the inspired apostle :

`There is a natural (psuchikon soul-ical) body, and there is a spiritual (pneumatikon) body. And so it is written,

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit' (1 Cor. 15:44, 45).

In this selfsame chapter, and in continuation of the argument, the apostle says :

`We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed ... for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this

mortal must put on immortality ... ` (1 Cor. 15:51-54).

So, Death will be swallowed up in victory, not because man inherently possesses an immortal soul, but because

immortality is entered only at resurrection. `Life and immortality' is brought to light `through the gospel' and

through the gospel only (2 Tim. 1:10).

Nephesh, the Hebrew word `soul' occurs 754 times in the Old Testament, and the equivalent Greek word psuche

occurs 103 times in the New Testament. The astounding fact is that not once in all 857 verses scattered throughout

the whole Bible is there found a statement which would lend the remotest colouring to the oft repeated statement

`the immortal soul' or `the never-dying soul'. We are fully aware that many make a last ditch stand at Mark 9:44,

`Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched', but few realise that this is a quotation from Isaiah 66: 24

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where `carcases of men' are the subject.

It has not been our intention that an exhaustive treatment of salvation in all its aspects should be attempted,

which must include a careful study of O.T. types such as the Passover, the great offerings of Leviticus one to five,

the fasts and feasts of Israel, and the many aspects of the sacrifice for sin made by our Saviour, variously spoken of

as Redemption, Ransom, Propitiation, Offering, and the unbroken insistence in Law, Prophets and Psalms, in

Gospel, Acts, Epistles and Revelation, that for sinners of whatever nationality, and under whatever dispensation they

may be called, there is an unqualified reiteration of the principle supplied in Hebrews 9:22 :

`Without shedding of blood is no remission'.

To set aside as obsolete, or unenlightened, or not being upon a high spiritual plane such insistence, is to set aside the whole

Book. Ephesians and Colossians are confessedly among the most spiritual of all books of the Bible, yet we do not

read more than six verses in Ephesians before we read :

`In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;

wherein He hath abounded toward us' (Eph. 1:7,8).

To illustrate something of this abounding grace we conclude this booklet with a series of short studies which look at

the Redeemer's work from a number of angles.

Our readers are doubtless familiar with the passages referred to in our title, and it is our intention to examine

them with regard to their typical teaching. The action of Israel with regard to their Messiah is foreshadowed in this

historic incident, for Stephen, in Acts 7:51, referring to Israel as `stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears',

who always resisted the Holy Ghost as their fathers did, says, `the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into

Egypt: but God was with him ... and at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren' (Acts 7:9-13).

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For a more complete analysis, see the booklet `Hell or pure from the blood of all men'.