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We all die. Some view death as a thing to be feared; some see it as the end. The question Alford asks is this: what happens when we die? As he closely examines the Scriptures, he brings his readers with him, using the Bible as the basis for his conclusions on one of the most important questions that we all must eventually face both in our own lives and the lives of those we love.

We shall be guided in its consideration by two texts of Holy Scripture. The one is that where our Lord answers the prayer of the dying thief that He would remember him when He came into His kingdom, Luke 23:43: “VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.” And the other is an expression of St. Paul, Phil. 1:23, not improbably taken from those very words recorded in the gospel of that evangelist who was his companion in travel—“TO DEPART AND TO BE WITH CHRIST.” Now in both these
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