ABSTRACT
When Yahweh’s power was thus extended, it would seem as if a higher doctrine of immortality might have been developed; but this extension came too late. The theory of retribution without resurrection.—The magnificent heritage of Greek thought on the subject of immortality from the early Orphists down to Plato was well known to the Jews in Alexandria, and must have been accepted more or less extensively in Palestine. The Book of Wisdom never mentions a resurrection, but teaches exclusively the Platonic doctrine of immortality. “God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own being.” Fresh light must be thrown upon the nature of God, the nature of man, and their relation to one another before the problem of immortality could be solved. That light came in Him, through whose life, and teaching, and rising again from the dead, life and immortality have been brought to light.
