For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobe

dience: 7in the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

JAMES V.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Be hold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. I JOHN iii.

2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

LUKE xii.

35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38 And if he shall come in the second

watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be

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broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

(α) Ουρανός is used in three senses: (a') Habitation of birds:

MATT. viii.

20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

ΜΑΤΤ. χχίν.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and

the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (B) Starry region:

ACTS vii.

42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which. is by the sea shore innumerable. (y') The abode of Christ:

HEB. ix.

24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for

us:

I PETER iii.

22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

(d) Sometimes called the third heaven: 2 COR. xii.

2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

() Sometimes used by way of contrast with "earth:"

2 PETER iii.

HEB. xi.

EPH. ii.

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: EPH. i.

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. EPH. vi.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

2. What are the principal terms, both literal and figurative, which are used in Scripture to designate the future blessedness of the saints?

(a) Literal terms:

(a) Life, eternal life, everlasting life: