[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—In his interesting letter in last week's issue, " J. M. J." has failed to notice the peculiar form of expression used both by St. Luke (xx. 35) and St. Paul (Phil. iii. 11). St. Luke says the
_ _u_ _K vocpay. Light- foot .11,s Ix vExpav, and St. Fa I 4, foot translates the expression, " the resurrection from the dead," and says it refers " to the final resurrection of the righteous to a new and glorified life". . . ." The general resur- rection of the dead, whether good or bad, is avria-rauw HKAP." The reading apparently followed by the R.V. in Philippians is, Lightfoot says, feebly supported.
Many Bible students believe that for the faithful in Christ Jesus there is a first resurrection (see, for example, 1 Cor. xv. 23, 24), and that it was to the attainment of that privilege that St. Paul aspired.—I am, Sir, &e.,
HENRY J. BURKITT.
The Rectory, Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.
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