11 JANUARY 1879, Page 15

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ''SPECTATOR.”] SIR,—Your reviewer, in his

able article on Mr. Oxenham's book, "Eternal Punishments," scarcely, I think, gives sufficient weight to that passage of Scripture which he describes as the best "foundation for Universalism." Instead of, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death " (as in our Version), would not the Greek be more accurately rendered thus,—" The last enemy

—death—shall be destroyed."—I am, Sir, &c., S. P.