p. 204 | Thou Shalt Surely Die by G.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1865

"Thou Shalt Surely Die."

By G.

THESE are the words of the Almighty to Adam, in warning him of the consequences which would follow eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Rev. D. W. Clarke has recently issued a volume called "Man all Immortal," which gives as simple and consistent an interpretation of the above words as we recollect to have seen. On page 134 he says:

"The sentence of death for sin is expressed in these words: 'Thou shalt surely die;' or, more literally, 'dying, thou shalt die.' This form of expression is peculiar and emphatic, denoting not only the absolute certainty of the punishment denounced, but also the gradual completion of it. 'Dying, thou shalt die.' In that day thou shalt become incurably mortal; thou shalt gradually but certainly die; all thy days shalt thou be tending to dissolution and death, without the possibility of escape or remedy. This sentence is literally fulfilled upon our race; for 'as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."

What expositor, who interprets the above scripture in its most literal sense would have used language more appropriate. G.