evils. Nay rather, if they should suffer death while engaged in well-doing and because they adhered to righteousness, the way to bodily death would be the way to a higher life of the spirit—even as it had been in the case of their Lord. If Peter does not in this language assume the truth of Christ’s representation in regard to the power of man to kill the body without killing the soul, it is difficult to discover any consistent meaning in his words. But if he entertains the precise view expressed