But there was still another consideration, to which the Jews, though they practically disregarded it, were specially directed; a consideration, which might have taught them, how the seeming irregularities, of which they complained, would be completely rectified; it was that of a final judgment, of a world to come. Their prophet Isaiah expressly says of the transgressors, that “their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.” {192a} And Daniel more particularly intimates the awful difference between the conditions of the righteous and the wicked in a future state; “many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake: some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” {192b} But the Israelites “had eyes and saw not, ears and heard not;” {193a} they listened only the temporal promises of God, and excluded from their minds the prospect of a final retribution, of a kingdom to come. The prophet awakens them to this consideration in the 4th verse, “Behold, saith the Lord, all souls are Mine:” as they are all equally My creatures, so My dealings with them shall be without prejudice or partiality; “The soul that sinneth, it shall die:” this denunciation could not possibly be understood of temporal death; for that, they knew, must pass equally upon all: it must relate to a final execution of judgment, to future misery and destruction. The Jews were familiar with this form of speech and this application of it: of wisdom it is said, “They that hate me, love _death_.” {193b} “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of _death_.” {193c} A similar mode of speech, we may observe, frequently occurs in the New Testament also; in which we continually find expressions and figures borrowed from the Old: “If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye, through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” {194a} And, in the book of Revelation, mention is made of the _second death_; {194b} a term which was in use among the Jews themselves, though not found in their inspired writings. And in the same sense, we shall perceive, the figure is repeatedly employed in the chapter before us.