Page 19 - 33 The First Great Deception

Absalom: for he was comforted concerning

Amnon, seeing he was dead.’ Verse 39.

“And what is the inference to be deduced

from this language? Is it not that endless

suffering formed no part of his religious

belief? So we conceive; and here we discover

a triumphant argument in support of the

more pleasing, more enlightened, more

benevolent hypothesis of ultimate universal

purity and peace. He was comforted, seeing

his son was dead. And why so? Because by

the eye of prophecy he could look forward

into the glorious future and see that son far

removed from all temptations, released from

the bondage and purified from the

corruptions of sin, and after being made

sufficiently holy and enlightened, admitted to

the assembly of ascended and rejoicing

spirits. His only comfort was that, in being