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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1859

To Correspondents.

By Editor

L. L. L., of Vt.: The promise of Christ to the thief [Luke xiii, 43] is a simple declaration. Transposing the subject and verb makes no difference whatever in the sense. It is the same whether we say, thou shalt, or shalt thou. The Gr. is simply ἔσῃ [ese], the future of eimi, "you shall be." Placing the comma after to-day, makes Christ declare upon that day what he would do in the future. Leaving it before to-day as in the common version, makes Christ utter a promise the fulfillment of which he emphatically denies three days after, in Jno. xx, 17. In regard to the rest mentioned in Heb. iv, 9, it is evidently the rest of Canaan, which the children of Israel entered upon under Joshua, and which was a type of the "rest that remains" for God's people. Hence it is evident that the Jesus of verse 8, is Joshua, as you will see by the margin, and as you will also see by reference to Acts vii, 45,