TO CORRESPONDENTS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

1. Does Lev. 7:23 apply under the new covenant? 2. Are the garden of Eden, paradise, and the third Heaven all one place? E. H.

ANS. 1. We think not. See verse 25. 2. We think the “paradise of God” is in the third Heaven. 2 Cor. 12:2-4; Rev. 2:7; 22:1, 2; 21:2.

How many days of the week are kept as a Sabbath, and by whom? J. W. L.

ANS. Besides the first day kept by Christians, and the seventh day kept by Jews and Christians, Friday, or the sixth day, is kept by the Mohammedans; but they can hardly be said to keep it as a Sabbath, the chief difference between this day and others being that on this day the people must say their prayers at the mosque. No other days that we are aware of are kept in any manner as a Sabbath by any people.

J. WATT: For an explanation of 2 Kings 2:13 and John 3:13, see REVIEW, Vol. 51, No. 19, Answers to Correspondents.

Do the words “resurrection of damnation,” John 5:29, mean in the original “resurrection to eternal sin”? I heard a minister assert that they did. N. J. B.

ANS. There is not a shadow of truth in the assertion. The words are, eis anastasin kriseos; and kriseos, the genitive of krisis, means of condemnation, punishment, calamity, suffering. There isn’t even an implied allusion to the continuance of sin.

Do not all, or nearly all, Methodist authors who write upon the subject, agree in identifying the papacy as the power represented by the little horn of the fourth beast of Dan. 7? W. S.

ANS. So far as we know, they do. Thus Watson’s Dictionary, art. Horn, Dr. Clarke on Dan. 7:24, 25, and John Wesley in his Notes on Rev. 13, agree in making this application.

ANSWERED BY LETTER. H. H. Brunsteter, P. H. Clark, J. G. C., E. P. Daniels, Edward Lee, H. Wren, J. S. Osborn, M. F. Welch, W. G. Smith, E. A. McOmber, Geo. Perkins.