TO CORRESPONDENTS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

M. HULET: We understand Isa. 66:24 to apply only at the time of the destruction of the wicked, and then to be a scene of the past.

Job says: “Yet in my flesh shall I see God.” Job 19:26. The margin says, “Out of my flesh shall I see God.” This is quoted to prove that man has an immortal soul that sees separate from the body. How is it explained? W. L.,

ANS. The text is a better translation than the margin, because it is less liable to be misunderstood. But the margin contains the same idea, when correctly interpreted. The words “out of” are there used in the same sense as we use them when we speak of looking “out of” the window, or “out of” the house; not that we are outside of the house, but being in the house we look out of it. Just so with Job. Being in his flesh, in which he represents himself as in a-