Answer To Correspondents.
The first of these texts declares that the elders of Israel saw the God of Israel; and the second says that “no man hath seen God at any time;” and the apparent discrepancy between these, and quite a number of other similar texts, is explained by Ex. 33: 20, which records these words of God to Moses: “Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live.” Then Moses was put into a cleft of the rock, and God covered him with his hand as he passed by; then he took away his hand, and Moses beheld his back parts, verse 23, “but my face,” said God, “shall not be seen.” However strong expressions some may have used on discovering that they had come into the personal presence of a divine being, as in Gen. 32: 30, and Judges 13: 22, it is certain that no man in his normal condition has ever seen the face of God, whose unveiled glories would strike us from existence; and to such a vision of God the language of John evidently and consistently refers. T. BROWN: Thank you for the copy of the little work on “Annihilation” by T. S. La Due, which we have received. We could easily review it as a whole, but probably very few of those who will read that book would ever see the review of it. Answers to all the popular arguments have been fully written out in the different works published on this subject. Let them be circulated. No honest souls can be held in the delusion of error after the truth has once found them. On some of his points we may write some short articles for the paper; for more short-sighted positions or more glaring perversions of Scripture than some of his, we rarely meet. U. S.