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THE

ANASTASIS OF THE DEAD:

OR,

PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN IMMORTALITY,

AS DEDUCED FROM

THE TEACHINGS OF THE SCRIPTURE WRITERS,

IN REFERENCE TO

"THE RESURRECTION."

BY JASON LEWIS.

"Οτι δε εγείρονται οι νεκροι και Μωσης εμήνυσε.”
"Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed."

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY A. TOMPKINS,

38 & 40 CORNHILL.

1860.

BT

921

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

BY JASON LEWIS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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PREFACE.

THE An-a-sta-sis of the Dead," instead of the Resurrection of the Dead, may seem improper, it being unusual; but if for that which is scripturally symbolized by those expressions, we really must use a term other than the plain Anglo-Saxon "rising," (or "raising,") why not sometimes ana-stasis, from a word out of the original Greek of the Evangelists and Apostles, as well as always re-surrection, from a word out of the Latin Version of the Romish Church?

The author of the following work is entirely confident that its leading theme - the scripture doctrine of the anastasis or rising of the dead- has a most intimate connection with the true philosophy of the afterdeath life; hence that were the subject generally viewed in its true light, thousands would come to regard it with a great degree of interest, who now seem to consider it as scarcely worthy a moment's consideration. For these reasons and others, he deems such a work called for; and in the spirit of that scripture which says, "I believed, therefore have I spoken," he, believing, has therefore written, regretting only that he does not wield an abler pen.

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