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The Christian Doctrine of Immortality is divided into six parts—expansions of six lectures originally delivered in Edinburgh as part of the Cunningham Lectures series. As Salmond states in the introduction, “The present inquiry limits itself to the question, What is the witness of Scripture on the subject? The words of Christ are to me the highest authority, beyond which I seek no other.”...

in contrast with the corrupt and exhausted condition that now is. This renovated world will be the abode of righteousness, and the seat of the perfected kingdom of God. According to Jewish ideas, this perfected kingdom, which was to have its centre in the Holy Land, was also to embrace the whole world; and the Old Testament prophets spoke of a new heavens and a new earth which Jehovah was to create.1 What prophecy and Jewish idea had associated with the Advent of Messiah, this paragraph associates
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