...does not read as clearly written in that book, or evidently deducible therefrom ; that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of reward and punishment is not clearly written, or evidently deducible from the books of Moses, and therefore...

...Viscount Bolingbroke thus speaks of the authority of the ancient testimonies quoted above: "The doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of reward, or punishment, which seemed to be lost in the darkness of antiquity, yet is found to pervade...

...Warburton, on the contrary (as before, like Vico), a society of atheists was impossible. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments was the foundation of religion. The teaching of this doctrine was necessary to the life...

...theologicus-politicus, 'De Hebraeorum vocatione," Spinoza had denied the existence, among the Jews, of the ideas of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of punishment or reward. "The only respects in which the Hebrews surpassed other nations," Spinoza declares,...

...tortures of Tartarus, and the joys of Elysium, which were exhibited in the most striking manner. The chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among...of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. The initiated were under the peculiar protection of the gods, and they alone were certain...

...than bring this ancient religion to perfection. It is in these maxims that we find the first notions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. There we see an express description of hell. Zoroaster, in the writings preserved by Sadder,...

...dissipating the darkness of the tomb, and producing, what had never before been felt, a serious and solemn conviction of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of retribution, it degraded at once to comparative insignificance, and cast far into the back ground all...