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 from the tree to know good and evil thou shalt not eat from it, for in the day of thy eating from it, dying, thou shalt die.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
And it shall be after the death of Abraham, God will bless Isaak his son; and Isaak will dwell by the well at the living vision.
Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?
Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
Truly the Son of man retires as has been written concerning him; and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it was good for him if that man had not been born.
These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him.
Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law. read more. But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be. But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many. And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification. For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just. And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded: That as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign by justice to life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked. For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)
For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.
We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains 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 shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?
Compassionate me, O Jehovah: see my affliction from those hating me, thou lifting me up from the gates of death:
O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail.
The mighty of heart were spoiled, they slumbered their sleep: and all the men of strength found not their hands.
Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust
Their soul will abhor all food, and they will draw near to the gates of death.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?
In their heat I will set their drinkings, and I made them drunken so that they shall exult, and sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says Jehovah.
For the Son of man has come to save the lost.
And be took him into his arms, and praised God, and said : Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace : read more. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
For David, truly having served his own generation by the will of God, was set to sleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption:
For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace.
Who truly spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, and how not with him will he freely give us all? Who shall demand payment for the chosen of God? God justifying. read more. Who, he condemning Christ having died, and rather also raised again, who is at the right hand of God, and who intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? pressure, or perplexity, or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Where thine, death, the sting? where thine, hades, the victory And the sting of death sin; and the power of sin the law. read more. And grace to God, giving us the victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked. For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.
Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:
In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;
And ye being dead in faults and in sins;
Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.
And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the eninity in it:
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;
Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil;
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:
And I deem just, in as far as I am in this tent, to arouse you by putting in mind; Knowing that the laying aside of my tent is swift; as also our Lord Jesus Christ manifested to me.
He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death.
But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,
Hastings
DEATH
I. In the OT.
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But from the tree to know good and evil thou shalt not eat from it, for in the day of thy eating from it, dying, thou shalt die.
Ye shall not turn to necromancers, and to wizards ye shall not seek, to be defiled by them: I Jehovah your God.
And the soul which shall turn to necromancers and to wizards, to commit fornication after them, and I gave my face against that soul and I cut him off from the midst of his people.
Who divided out the dust of Jacob and who numbered the fourth of Israel? My soul shall die the death of the just, and my latter state shall be as his.
See, I gave before thy face this day the life and the good, and the death and the evil;
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:
And he will say to me, Behold, thee conceiving, and thou bearest a son; and now drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb, even to the day of his death.
And Samuel will say, Bring near to me Agag king of Amalek. And Agag will come to him, wavering: and Agag will say, Surely the bitterness of death was removed.
And the king will say to her, Thou shalt not fear: What sawest thou? And the woman will say to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death; and Isaiah son of Amos the prophet will come in to him, and he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou art dying, and thou shalt not live.
There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest.
And I knew he redeeming me lived, and at last he shall rise up upon the dust:
Compassionate me, O Jehovah: see my affliction from those hating me, thou lifting me up from the gates of death:
How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?
How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?
For thou wilt not leave my soul to hades; thou wilt not give thy merciful ones to see corruption.
Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
My heart will be pained within me, and the terrors of death fell upon me.
Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion?
The dead shall not praise Jah, and all going down to silence.
The pains of death surrounded me, and the distresses of hades found me: shall find straits and affliction.
Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.
The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.
Correction is evil to him forsaking the way: he hating reproof shall die.
And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
And when they shall say to you, Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards peeping and panting: shall not a people seek their God among the living for the dead?
Hades from beneath was moved for thee to meet thy coming: it roused the shades for thee, all the leaders of the earth: it raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they will answer and say to thee, Also thou wert weak as we; thou wert made like to us.
And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.
And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.
Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.
And if thy hand or thy foot give thee cause of offence, cut them off, and cast from thee: it is good for thee to come into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire.
For the Son of man has come to save the lost.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.
And having time in, he says to them, Why make ye an uproar, and weep? the young child is not dead, but sleeps.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:
For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it.
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That some of those are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God having come in power.
And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, That he hearing my word, and believing him having sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment; but has passed from death to life.
This is the bread which coming down from heaven, that whoever should eat of it, and he should not die.
Then said Jesus again to them, I retire, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I retire, ye cannot come.
I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins.
Truly, truly, I say to you, If any keep my word, he should never see death. Then said the Jews to him, Now we have known that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any keep my word, he shall never taste of death.
I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work.
And Jesus having heard, said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that by it the Son of God be honoured.
These things said he: and after this he says to them, Lazarus our friend has been set to sleep; but I go, that I might waken him. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he has been set to sleep, he shall be saved. read more. And Jesus spake of his death: but these supposed that he speaks of the repose of sleep.
Jesus said to her, I am the rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live. And all living and believing in me should never die. Believest thou this?
Jesus says to her, Said I not to thee, if thou shouldest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God
Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:
It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?
And if we died with Christ, we believe we shall also live with him:
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The last enemy, death, is left unemployed.
And ye being dead in faults and in sins;
And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,
And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope.
Since therefore the young children participated in flesh and blood, he also likewise participated with them; that by death he might leave unemployed him having the strength of death, that is, the devil;
So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.
We know that we have passed from death to life, for we love the brethren. He not loving the brother remains in death.
These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;
And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: Thus says he having the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead:
And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works. And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: 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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But death reigned from Adam to Moses, and upon them not having sinned upon the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him about to be.
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death?
The last enemy, death, is left unemployed.
And ye being dead in faults and in sins;
And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:
He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He conquering should not be injured by the second death.
And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works. And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,