Readers of The Berean Expositor know that while all Scripture is our legitimate

province, the peculiar testimony of the dispensation of the mystery is our primary witness

and occupies the bulk of our available space. Such subjects, however, as the doctrine of

Scripture regarding sin, redemption, and the deity of Christ have necessarily claimed

our earnest attention. Among the doctrines that have been approached is that which deals

with the nature of man, and in Volume I appeared an article entitled: "What saith the

Scripture concerning the immortality of the soul?"  This article gave some of the

evidence of Scripture concerning the true nature of the soul, and shewed that such

expressions as "immortal soul" and "never-dying soul" are found nowhere in Scripture.

Since then, however, other themes have pressed for attention, and this important study

has been held over.

It is a sad fact that we are all liable to uncharitable judgments on our fellows, and,

lacking love, we oftentimes lack logic too; and some have not hesitated to affirm that,

because we do not believe in the immortality of the soul, we must necessarily endorse the

most extreme views of those materialistic and Unitarian teachers who happen to believe

the same thing as to the soul as we do. Our defence, however, will be in the prosecution

of our study in the true Berean spirit, and we therefore propose a more thorough

investigation than we have hitherto given of the scriptural teaching concerning the nature

of man.

As Volume I is now obtainable (having been reprinted), we will not go over the

ground there covered, except to recapitulate for the sake of clearness. The following

quotations, we trust, will suffice to put the facts before us:--