Untitled article by J. P. HURTING

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

The Resurrection from the Dead.

By J. P. HURTING

Phil. iii, 11. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

THE resurrection here spoken of is not that which is common to all, but, as the connection shows, is the Christian's reward. So, indeed, the Greek, ἐξανάστασιν τῶν νεκρῶν, should be translated: “If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection from the dead; that is, out from among the dead people. Always in the New Testament when the resurrection of the saints is spoken of, it is mentioned as being from the dead [people]; except in 1 Cor. xv, where Paul is refuting the doctrine that the dead cannot rise at all.

Christ's resurrection is always mentioned as from among the dead, and that in all the different forms of speech, as, He rose, was raised, and God brought him from the dead. In the same way is mentioned the case of Lazarus. This is evidently because the dead in general—are left behind. The dead in general are never thus spoken of in God's word. All will rise, but the saints a thousand years before the wicked.

It is only, then, by self-sacrificing, self-crucifying, obedient, earnest, Christian living, that either Paul or we can expect to attain to the resurrection from among the dead. J. P. HURTING.