. Now St. Paul says, that flesh and blood cannot
) inherit the kingdom of heaven, that is, the spiritual world.
how is the passage, as commonly interpreted, consistent with the numerous expressions of doubt and even of despondency in Job's speeches?
Ib.
B. C. (Ezekiel's vision xxxvii.)
I cannot but think that Dr. Donne, by thus antedating the distinct belief of the Jews in the resurrection, "which you all know already," destroys in great measure the force and sublimity of this vision. Besides, it does not seem, in the common people at least, to have been much more than a mongrel Egyptian-catacomb sort of faith, or rather superstition.
In fine