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opened, and ye shall be as gods.” He declares

that the vilest of sinners—the murderer, the

thief, and the adulterer—will after death be

prepared to enter into immortal bliss.

And from what does this perverter of the

Scriptures draw his conclusions? From a

single sentence expressing David's

submission to the dispensation of

Providence. His soul “longed to go forth unto

Absalom; for he was comforted concerning

Amnon, seeing he was dead.” The poignancy

of his grief having been softened by time, his

thoughts turned from the dead to the living

son, self-banished through fear of the just

punishment of his crime. And this is the

evidence that the incestuous, drunken

Amnon was at death immediately

transported to the abodes of bliss, there to be

purified and prepared for the companionship