Reference: Death
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Is taken in Scripture, first, for the separation of body and soul, the first death, Ge 25:11; secondly, for alienation from God, and exposure to his wrath, 1Jo 3:14, etc.; thirdly, for the second death, that of eternal damnation. Death was the penalty affixed to Adam's transgression, Ge 2:17; 3:19; and all his posterity are transgressors, and share the curse inflicted upon him. CHRIST is "our life." All believers share his life, spiritually and eternally; and though sin and bodily is taken away, and in the resurrection the last enemy shall be trampled under foot, Ro 5:12-21; 1Co 15.
Natural death is described as a yielding up of the breath, or spirit, expiring, Ps 104:29; as a return to our original dust, Ge 3:19; Ec 12:7; as the soul's laying off the body, its clothing, 2Co 5:3-4, or the tent in which it has dwelt, 2Co 5:1; 2Pe 1:13-14. The death of the believer is a departure, a going home, a falling asleep in Jesus, Php 1:23; Mt 26:24; Joh 11:11.
The term death is also sometimes used for any great calamity, or imminent danger threatening life, as persecution, 2Co 1:10. "The gates of death," Job 38:17, signify the unseen world occupied by departed spirits. Death is also figuratively used to denote the insensibility of Christians to the temptations of a sinful world, Col 3:3.
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.
He spoke these things, and after this he says to them, Our friend Lazarus has become asleep, but I go that I may awake him.
Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned. For until law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. read more. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man. But in this way also, the gift is not as the transgression. For if by the trespass of the one man the many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. And the gift is not as through one man who sinned, for indeed the judgment from one man was for condemnation, but the gift from many offenses is for righteousness. For if, by the offense of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. So then, as through an offense of one man was for condemnation for all men, so also through a righteousness of one man was for justification of life for all men. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous. And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant, so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed also having put it on we will not be found naked. For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.
And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.
For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.
Easton
may be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) "The dust shall return to the earth as it was" (Ec 12:7).
(2.) "Thou takest away their breath, they die" (Ps 104:29).
(3.) It is the dissolution of "our earthly house of this tabernacle" (2Co 5:1); the "putting off this tabernacle" (2Pe 1:13-14).
(4.) Being "unclothed" (2Co 5:3-4).
(5.) "Falling on sleep" (Ps 76:5; Jer 51:39; Ac 13:36; 2Pe 3:9.
(6.) "I go whence I shall not return" (Job 10:21); "Make me to know mine end" (Ps 39:4); "to depart" (Php 1:23).
The grave is represented as "the gates of death" (Job 38:17; Ps 9:13; 107:18). The gloomy silence of the grave is spoken of under the figure of the "shadow of death" (Jer 2:6).
Death is the effect of sin (Heb 2:14), and not a "debt of nature." It is but once (Heb 9:27), universal (Ge 3:19), necessary (Lu 2:28-30). Jesus has by his own death taken away its sting for all his followers (1Co 15:55-57).
There is a spiritual death in trespasses and sins, i.e., the death of the soul under the power of sin (Ro 8:6; Eph 2:1,3; Col 2:13).
The "second death" (Re 2:11) is the everlasting perdition of the wicked (Re 21:8), and "second" in respect to natural or temporal death.
THE DEATH OF CHRIST is the procuring cause incidentally of all the blessings men enjoy on earth. But specially it is the procuring cause of the actual salvation of all his people, together with all the means that lead thereto. It does not make their salvation merely possible, but certain (Mt 18:11; Ro 5:10; 2Co 5:21; Ga 1:4; 3:13; Eph 1:7; 2:16; Ro 8:32-35).
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In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, thou who lifts me up from the gates of death
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
The stouthearted are made a spoil. They have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Thou hide thy face, they are troubled. Thou take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Nor did they say, Where is LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none pa
When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.
For the Son of man came to save that which was lost.
he also received it into his arms, and praised God, and said, Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word, read more. because my eyes have seen thy salvation,
For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.
For if, while being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled we will be saved by his life.
For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.
He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him? Who will accuse against the chosen of God? God is he who makes righteous. read more. Who is he who will condemn? It is Christ who died, but more, who also was raised up, who also is at the right hand of God, who also appeals for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
O death, where is thy sting? O Hades, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. read more. But thanks is to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
if indeed also having put it on we will not be found naked. For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.
who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, according to the wealth of his grace,
Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins
Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.
And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.
And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,
Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,
But I think it right, inasmuch as I am in this tent, to arouse you in memory. Knowing that the putting off of my tent is imminent, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will, no, not be hurt from the second death.
But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Hastings
DEATH
I. In the OT.
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards. Do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am LORD your God.
And the soul that turns to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that thou may live, thou and thy seed,
but he said to me, Behold, thou shall conceive, and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Then Samuel said, Bring ye here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
And the king said to her, Be not afraid, for what do thou see? And the woman said to Saul, I see gods coming up out of the earth.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shall die, and not live.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, thou who lifts me up from the gates of death
Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,
Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,
For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.
I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living.
My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Unless LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon dwelt in silence.
The dead do not praise LORD, nor any who go down into silence,
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
There is grievous correction for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof shall die.
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.
And when they shall say to you, Seek for those who have familiar spirits and for the wizards, who chirp and who mutter, should not a people seek for their God? On behalf of the living [seek] to the dead?
Sheol from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming. It stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. They shall all answer and say to thee, Have thou also become weak as we? Have thou become like us?
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel of it. And they shall seek for the idols, and for the charmers, and for those who have familiar spirits, and for the wizards.
And if thy right eye causes thee to stumble, remove it and cast it from thee, for it is advantageous for thee that one of thy body-parts should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Enter ye in by the narrow gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter through it.
Enter ye in by the narrow gate, because wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter through it.
And if thy hand or thy foot causes thee to stumble, cut them off and cast from thee. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
For the Son of man came to save that which was lost.
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
And when he entered in, he says to them, Why do ye make a commotion, and weep? The child did not die, but sleeps.
For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life because of me and the good-news, this man will save it.
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, there are some of those who have stood here, who will, no, not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.
But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but thou, after departing, proclaim the kingdom of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
Jesus therefore again said to them, I go, and ye will seek me, and ye will die in your sin. Where I go, ye cannot come.
I said therefore to you that ye will die in your sins. For unless ye believe that I am he, ye will die in your sins.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age. The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and thou say, If any man keeps my word, he will, no, not taste of death, into the age.
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
But when Jesus heard, he said, This sickness is not about death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
He spoke these things, and after this he says to them, Our friend Lazarus has become asleep, but I go that I may awake him. His disciples therefore said, Lord, if he has become asleep, he will be healed. read more. But Jesus had spoken about his death, but those men thought that he was speaking about the restfulness of sleep.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live. And every man who lives and believes in me will, no, not die, into the age. Do thou believe this?
Jesus says to her, Did I not to say thee, that if thou believed, thou will see the glory of God?
Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.
May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The last enemy abolished is death.
Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins
even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.
Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.
Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who is not loving the brother abides in death.
These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted,
And to the agent of the congregation in Sardis write, These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou have a name that thou live, and thou are dead.
And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead in them. And they were judged, each according to their works. And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Morish
This is referred to in scripture under various aspects.
1. The general appointment for sinful man
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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am a wretched man. Who will rescue me out of the body of this death?
The last enemy abolished is death.
Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins
even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will, no, not be hurt from the second death.
And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead in them. And they were judged, each according to their works. And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.