p. 149 | PROOF TEXTS by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1856

PROOF TEXTS.

By John Norton Loughborough

[From the Work entitled, An Examination of the Scripture Testimony Concerning Man's Present Condition and his Future Reward or Punishment, by J. N. Loughborough]

Below we give a list of texts in which some of the important words relied upon as strong proof of the immortality of the soul are used (such as soul, spirit, &c.,) and their corresponding Hebrew rendering in the margin.

Texts in which the pronouns Me, Myself, He, His, Him, Himself, Yourselves, They, Themselves, are used, in the margin the word soul is used in their stead.

TEXTS.	MARGIN.
Common Version.	Hebrew.
Num. xxiii, 10. Let me die the death of the righteous.	Let my soul die.
Jud. xvi. 30. Let me die with the Philistines.	Let my soul die.
Ps. cxxxi, 2. I have behaved and quieted myself.	Quieted my soul.
Ps. xlix, 19. He shall go to the generation of his fathers.	The soul shall go.
Ps. cv, 18. He was laid in iron.	His soul came into iron.
Prov xvi, 26. He that laboreth.	The soul of him that laboreth.
Prov. xiv, 10. His own bitterness.	The bitterness of his soul.
Micah vii, 3. He uttereth his mischevious desire.	The mischief of his soul.
Prov. vi, 16. Seven things are an abomination unto him.	Of his soul.
Job xviii, 4. He teareth himself in his anger.	His soul.
Job xxxii, 2. Justified himself.	His soul.
Jer. li, 14. The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself.	By his soul.
Amos ii, 14. Neither shall the mighty deliver himself,	The his soul.
Lev. xi, 43. Not make yourselves abominable.	Your souls.
Josh. xxiii, 11. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves.	Your souls.
Job xxxvi, 14. They die.	Their soul dieth
Isa xlvi, 2. Themselves are gone.	Their soul.
Isa. xlvii, 14. Not deliver themselves.	Their souls.
Esth. ix, 31. Decreed for themselves.	For their souls.

Texts in which the word person is used, and the rendering in the margin is soul:

Instances where himself and life occur in the text and are rendered life, person and living soul in the margin:

We have already stated that the primary signification of the word soul was the whole man. These many instances we have referred to above prove what we have claimed. Life is sometimes meant by the soul.

Let those who suppose the soul is immaterial read the following texts:

We will now quote an instance where the expression dead body occurs. Translators tell us the original Hebrew for dead body is meth nephesh.

| Num. xix. 11. He that toucheth the dead body of any man. | Dead soul of man. |

See the following texts, in which the expression dead body occurs. Remember as you read them that those dead bodies spoken of are dead souls. Num. ix, 10; Lev. xxi, 11; Num. vi, 6; xix, 16; 2 Chron. xx, 24, 25; Ps. lxxix, 2; Ps. cx, 6; Hag. ii, 13.