...testimony of God forbids it." He quotes Hosea iv. 12, and Psalm cvi. 28, 29, and then adds : " Lo, here ye may see the sacrifices of the dead were forbidden....living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything." George Fox was wont to address his epistles to Friends thus : — " To all the elect, faithful,...

...the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. There is one event unto all : the living know they shall die, but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward.* But he who should repeat these words, with this assurance, to an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation,...

...creature while alive, better than the most noble creature, including man, when he is dead ?] " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither HAVE THEY," [mark, I speak of present time, while they remain dead, neither have...

...him that is joined to all the living there is hope : for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward : for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love...

...concerning the world of shades. siastes (ix. 4, 5) : 'A living dog is better than a dead lion: for the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything.' 0 Is it possible to reconcile this declaration with the opinion that the good are comforted...

...all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know diat they shall die, but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for die memory of them is forgotten. •Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;...

...Epicurus. Consider, for example, the following, 9:4-5: "A living dog is better than a dead lion, for the living know that they shall die but the dead know not anything." Here we see transposed into the Hebraic idiom of thought the doctrine of the Garden that...

...went again, this time to explain the state of the dead. He presented his study reading such texts as "the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything," and the comforting promise in John 5:28 & 29, ". . .the hour is coming in which all that...

...billions of angels who sided with Satan in the rebellion in heaven. The Bible positively tells us, 'The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward: for the memory of them is forgotten." (Ecclesiastes...

...thoughts perish." Solomon spoke to the same effect as his father David, Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 6: "For the living know that they shall die ; but the dead know not anything; also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any...