[To TILE EDITOR Or Ills SiMOM010] • cannot agree with
you, in your review (Spectator, July 16th) of Prebendary Row's book, that there is any ambiguity in that classical passage of the 15th Chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, where the Apostle predicts the ultimate completeness of the victory of Christ. You say there is a distinction between what is to be " abolished " and what is to be "subjected," or "put under his feet ;" and you think it is not clear that all the enemies which are to be "subjected" are to be also "abolished." St. Paul did not think he could be misunderstood, and did not carefully guard his meaning ; but it seems to me evident that he teaches us to expect the subjec- tion of the entire universe to Christ, and the abolition of all powers hostile to Christ's.* The rebellion will be suppressed; all authority, except that of the lawful King, shall be abolished; and all the realms, which are rightly His, shall be subjected under His feet. The chief among the powers to be abolished is sin, and the last of them shall be death, which dose not mean the mere death of the body, but the oollective consequences of sin. At last, "God shall be all in all," a truth which is quite con- sistent with the annihilation of the finally impenitent and irreclaimable, but not with their continued existence in rebellion and misery.—I am, Sir, &a,
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