that, if we be Christian men. For the Bible tells us, that Christ
brought life and immortality to light. Therefore they must have been
in darkness before Christ's coming; and men did not know as much
about life and immortality before Christ's coming as they know--or
ought to know--now.

But if we need only believe that we shall live for ever after death
in happiness or misery, then Christ has not brought life and
immortality to light. He has thrown no fresh light upon the matter.

And why? For this simple reason, that the old heathen knew as much
as that before Christ came.

The old Greeks and Romans, and Persians, and our own forefathers
before they became Christians, believed that men's souls would live
for ever happy or miserable. The Mussulmans, Mahommedans, Turks as
they are called in the Prayer-book, believe as much as that now.
They believe that men's souls live for ever after death, and go to
'heaven' or 'hell.'

So those words 'everlasting Life' must needs mean something more than
that. What do they mean?

First. What does everlasting mean?

It means exactly the same as eternal. The two words are the same:
only everlasting is English, and eternal Latin. But they have the
same sense.

Now everlasting and eternal mean something which has neither