_Scripture parallel._ "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead." (1 Cor. xv. 29.) 30. "They gave a mystical sense to the Scriptures, disregarding the letter." _Scripture parallel._ "The letter killeth, but the spirit maketh alive." (1 Cor. iii. 6.) 31. "They taught by metaphors, symbols, and parables." _Scripture parallel._ "Without a parable spake he not unto them." (Matt. xiii. 34.) 32. "They had many mysteries in their religion which they were sworn to keep secret." _Scripture parallel._ "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom; to them it is not given." (Matt xiii. 11.) "Great is the mystery of godliness." 33. "They had in their churches, bishops, elders, deacons, and priests." _Scripture parallel._ "Ordained elders in every church." (Acts xiv. 23.) For "deacons," see 1 Tim. iii. 1. 34. "When assembled together they would often sing psalms." _Scripture parallel._ "Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms." (Col. iii. 16.) 35. "They healed and cured the minds and bodies of those who joined them." _Scripture parallel_ "Healing all manner of sickness," &c. (Matt iv. 23.) 36. "They practiced certain ceremonial purifications by water." _Scripture parallel_. "The accomplishment of the days of purification." (Acts xxi. 26.) 37. "They assembled at the Sabbath festivals clothed in white garments." _Scripture parallel_ "Shall be clothed in white garments." (Rev. iii. 4.) 38. "They disbelieved in the resurrection of the external body." _Scripture parallel_ "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." (1 Cor. xv. 44.) 39. Pliny says, "They were the only sort of men who lived without money and without women." _Scripture parallel_\ "The love of money is the root of all evil." (1 Tim. vi. 10.) Christ's disciples travelled without money and without scrip, and "eschew the lusts of the flesh." 40. "They practiced the extremest charity to the poor." (c. ii. 71.) _Scripture parallel_ "Bestow all thy goods to feed the poor." (1 Cor. xiii. 3.) 41. "They were skillful in interpreting dreams, and in foretelling future events." _Scripture parallel_ "Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams." (Acts ii. 17.) 42. "They believed in a paradise,... and in a place of never-ending lamentations." _Scripture parallel_ "Life everlasting." (Gal. viii. 8.) "Weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth." (Matt. xiii. 42.) 43. "They affirmed," says Josephus, "that God foreordained all the events of human life." _Scripture parallel_' "Foreordained before the foundation of the world." (1 Peter.) 44. "They believed in Mediators between God and the souls of men." _Scripture parallel_. "One Mediator between God and men." (1 Tim. ii. 5.) 45. "They practiced the pantomimic representation of the death, burial, and resurrection of God"--Christ the Spirit. _Scripture parallel_. With respect to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, see 1 Cor. xv. 4.