14 AUGUST 1875, Page 15

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.

"THE SECOND DEATH."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPE0TATOR.1 Stn,—I have not read the tract on "The Second Death," and am not going to discuss it ; but I wish to mention the fact, which has been strangely overlooked, that the expression eternal death never once occurs in the New Testament, even where the struc- ture of the sentence suggests it and seems to require it,—I mean in such passages as, "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life."—I am, Sir, &c., Jos EPIE eT011X MURPHY.