as to what the saints shall see, for verses 35, 36 continue and give us the figure of the

wicked "like a green bay tree--yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not, yea, I sought

him, but he could not be found."  The "end" of the righteous is "peace," but the

transgressors shall be destroyed together and the end of the wicked shall be cut off."

Again, by referring to verses 9, 22, 28, and 34 we shall see the wicked shall be "cut

off" from the inheriance:--

This judgment, then, deprives those upon whom it falls not only of any share in the

kingdom of the heavens and the peace of God (verses 11 and 37), but blots them out, or

cuts them down as a tree, so effectually that twice in this Psalm the words indicative of

extinction are used (verses 10 and 36). The reference to a tree is also found in the next

occurrence (Prov. 2: 22).  "The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the

transgressors shall be rooted out of it." The one passage in the A.V. wherein the word

karath is rendered "perish" has reference to the vegetation of the country perishing by

reason of famine, viz., Gen. 41: 36, "that the land perish not through famine."

Again we pause to consider the testimony of this word to the doctrine before us.

What are the wages of sin? Abad, to perish; shamad, to be destroyed; tsamath, to be cut

off. Every figure used concerning the last two words considered in this present article

enforce the meaning.  The divorcement of man and wife; the complete loss of the

unredeemed dwelling house; the vanishing of the stream; the extinction of the tree whose

very place could not be found, all alike testify to the truth of the Scriptures, that the

wages of sin is death, and give the lie to the vain deceitful philosophy which says, "There

is no death, what seems so is transition," which tells us that death is but life in another

place. Oh to believe God! Let men call us what they will. It is required in stewards that

a man be found faithful.

We have now considered four of the most important Hebrew words used by God in

connection with the wages of sin, viz., abad, shamd, tsamath, and karath. One or two

more words of less frequent usage will complete our studies in this section, and then we

must turn to the Greek words used in the N.T.

Kalah.­This word is translated by a great many different English words. We give a

few of the most important: "to consume, be consumed, consume away," 60 times. Other

renderings include, "be accomplished"; "be finished," "cease"; "destroy utterly";

"utter end."

Let us look at the way the word is used, apart from the question of future punishment.

"On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made" (Gen. 2: 2). Comment is