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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
attend the infliction of death upon the sinner

as the climax of his penalty? So, then, our view

is equal with the common one in this respect,

while it possesses great advantages over it in

another; for while that has to find its degrees

of punishment in intensity of pain alone, the

duration in all cases being the same, this may

not only have degrees in pain but in duration

also; inasmuch as some may perish in a short

space of time, and the weary sufferings of

others be long drawn out. But yet we

apprehend that the bodily suffering will be but

an unnoticed trifle compared with the mental

agony, that keen anguish which will rack their

souls as they get a view of their incomparable

loss, each according to his capacity of

appreciation. The youth who had but little

more than reached the years of accountability,

being less able to comprehend his situation