[318] γυνη παροιστρος, Celsus. "Moments sacrés ou la passion d'une hallucinée donne au monde un Dieu ressuscité." Renan, _Vie de Jesus_, 434. [319] "Post Resurrectionem ... Dominus quum dedisset sindonem servo sacerdotis"--Evang. ad Heb.--Matt. xxvii. 59.--R. Anger, _Synopsis Evang._, 288. [320] Mark xvi. 8. [321] Luke xxiv. 37. [322] Luke xxiv. 41; John xx. 20. [323] Ps. xxxiv. 15. [324] John xxi. 12, cf. 7. [325] Matt. xxviii. 13. [326] 1 Peter i. 3, 4; Apoc. i. 17, 18. [327] See _The Destiny of Man, viewed in the light of his origin_, by John Fiske, especially the three remarkable chapters pp. 96-119. [328] John xx. 10, 11. [329] The word Ἑβραιστι had unfortunately dropped out of the T. R. John xx. 16. [330] John xiv. 19. [331] εν ἑαυτω, ver. 10. [332] ὁ μη πιστευων τω Θεω, _Ibid._ [333] ου πεπιστευκεν, _Ibid._ [334] εις την μαρτυριαν ἡν μεμαρτυρηκεν ὁ Θεος περι του υιου αυτου. _Ibid._ [335] παν το γεγεννημενον εκ του Θεου νικα τον κοσμον. ver. 4. [336] With the neuter in ver. 4, contrast the individualising masculine in ver. 5, τις εστιν ὁ νικων. DISCOURSE XIV. _SIN UNTO DEATH._ "There is a sin unto death."--1 JOHN v. 17. The Church has ever spoken of seven deadly sins. Here is the ugly catalogue. Pride, covetousness, lust, envy, gluttony, hatred, sloth. Many of us pray often "from fornication and all other deadly sin, Good Lord deliver us." This language rightly understood is sound and true; yet, without careful thought, the term may lead us into two errors. 1. On hearing of _deadly_ sin we are apt instinctively to oppose it to _venial_. But we cannot define by any _quantitative_ test what venial sin may be for any given soul. To do that we must know the complete history of each soul; and the complete genealogy, conception, birth, and autobiography of each sin. Men catch at the term _venial_ because they love to minimise a thing so tremendous as sin. The world sides with the casuists whom it satirises; and speaks of a "white lie," of a foible, of an inaccuracy, when "the 'white lie' may be that of St. Peter, the foible that of David, and the inaccuracy that of Ananias!" 2. There is a second mistake into which we often fall in speaking of deadly sin. Our imagination nearly always assumes some one definite outward act; some single individual sin. This may partly be due to a seemingly slight mistranslation in the text. It should not run "there is _a_ sin," but "there is sin unto" (_i.e._, in the direction of, towards) "death." The text means something deeper and further-reaching than any single sin, deadly though it may be justly called.