DEATH

Is taken in Scripture, first, for the separation of body and soul, the first death, Ge 25:11; secondly, for alienation from God, and exposure to his wrath, 1Jo 3:14, etc.; thirdly, for the second death, that of eternal damnation. Death was the penalty affixed to Adam’s transgression, Ge 2:17 3:19; and all his posterity are transgressors, and share the curse inflicted upon him. CHRIST is "our life." All believers share his life, spiritually and eternally; and though sin and bodily is taken away, and in the resurrection the last enemy shall be trampled under foot, Ro 5:12-21 1Co 15:1-58. Natural death is described as a yielding up of the breath, or spirit, expiring, Ps 104:29; as a return to our original dust, Ge 3:19 Ec 12:7; as the soul’s laying off the body, its clothing, 2Co 5:3,4, or the tent in which it has dwelt, 2Co 5:1 2Pe 1:13,14. The death of the believer is a departure, a going home, a falling asleep in Jesus, Php 1:23 Mt 26:24 Joh 11:11. The term death is also sometimes used for any great calamity, or imminent danger threatening life, as persecution, 2Co 1:10. "The gates of death," Job 38:17, signify the unseen world occupied by departed spirits. Death is also figuratively used to denote the insensibility of Christians to the temptations of a sinful world, Col 3:3.

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Death. Death
May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) “The dust shall return to the earth as it was” (Eccl. 12:7).

(2.) “Thou takest away their breath, they die” (Ps. 104:29).

(3.) It is the dissolution of “our earthly house of this tabernacle” (2 Cor. 5:1); the “putting off this tabernacle” (2 Pet. 1:13, 14).

(4.) Being “unclothed” (2 Cor. 5:3, 4).

(5.) “Falling on sleep” (Ps. 76:5; Jer. 51:39; Acts 13:36; 2 Pet. 3:9.

(6.) “I go whence I shall not return” (Job 10:21); “Make me to know mine end” (Ps. 39:4); “to depart” (Phil. 1:23).

The grave is represented as “the gates of death” (Job 38:17; Ps. 9:13; 107:18). The gloomy silence of the grave is spoken of under the figure of the “shadow of death” (Jer. 2:6).

Death is the effect of sin (Heb. 2:14), and not a “debt of nature.” It is but once (9:27), universal (Gen. 3:19), necessary (Luke 2:28-30). Jesus has by his own death taken away its sting for all his followers (1 Cor. 15:55-57).

There is a spiritual death in trespasses and sins, i.e., the death of the soul under the power of sin (Rom. 8:6; Eph. 2:1, 3; Col. 2:13).

The “second death” (Rev. 2:11) is the everlasting perdition of the wicked (Rev. 21:8), and “second” in respect to natural or temporal death.

THE DEATH OF CHRIST is the procuring cause incidentally of all the blessings men enjoy on earth. But specially it is the procuring cause of the actual salvation of all his people, together with all the means that lead thereto. It does not make their salvation merely possible, but certain (Matt. 18:11; Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 1:4; 3:13; Eph. 1:7; 2:16; Rom. 8:32-35).

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DEATH. → Miscellaneous Subjects
* Called GIVING UP THE GHOST Ge 25:8; 35:29; La 1:19; Ac 5:10
* KING OF TERRORS Job 18:14
* A CHANGE Job 14:14
* GOING TO THY FATHERS Ge 15:15; 25:8; 35:29
* PUTTING OFF THIS TABERNACLE 2Pe 1:14
* REQUIRING THE SOUL Lu 12:20
* GOING THE WAY WHENCE THERE IS NO RETURN Job 16:22
* BEING GATHERED TO OUR PEOPLE Ge 49:33
* GOING DOWN INTO SILENCE Ps 115:17
* RETURNING TO DUST Ge 3:19; Ps 104:29
* BEING CUT DOWN Job 14:2
* FLEEING AS A SHADOW Job 14:2
* DEPARTING Php 2:23

→ Called SLEEP De 31:16; Job 7:21; 14:12; Jer 51:39; Da 12:2; Joh 11:11; Ac 7:60; 13:36; 1Co 15:6,18,51; 1Th 4:14,15 → EXEMPTION FROM
* Enoch Ge 5:24; Heb 11:5
* Elijah 2Ki 2
* Promised to saints at the second coming of Christ 1Co 15:51; 1Th 4:15,17
* No death in heaven Lu 20:36; Re 21:4

→ DESIRED Jer 8:3; Re 9:6
* By Moses Nu 11:15
* Elijah 1Ki 19:4
* Job Job 3; 6:8-11; 7:1-3,15,16; 10:1; 14:13
* Jonah Jon 4:8
* Simeon Lu 2:29
* Paul 2Co 5:2,8; Php 1:20-23

→ AS A JUDGMENT
* Upon the Antediluvians Ge 6:7,11-13
* Sodomites Ge 19:12,13,24,25
* Saul 1Ch 10:13,14

→ SYMBOLIZED
* By the pale horse Re 6:8
* King of Terrors Job 18:14

→ APOSTROPHE TO Ho 13:14; 1Co 15:55 → UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO Ge 2:17; 3:19; 27:2; De 32:39; Jos 23:14; 1Sa 2:6; 20:2,3; 2Sa 1:23; 14:14; Job 1:21; 3:13,17-19; 7:1,8-10,21; 10:21,22; 14:2,5-12,14,19-21; 16:22; 17:13,14,16; 21:23,25,26,32,33; 30:23; 34:14,15; 36:18,19; 38:17; Ps 6:5; 23:4; 30:9; 39:4,13; 49:7,9; 68:20; 82:7; 88:9-14; 89:48; 90:3; 103:14-16; 104:29; 115:17; 143:3; 144:4; 146:4; Ec 2:14-18; 3:2,19-21; 4:2; 5:15; 6:6,10; 7:1,2,15; 8:8; 9:3,5,6,10; 12:5,7; Isa 25:8; 38:1,10-13,18; 40:7; 51:12; Jer 9:21; Ho 13:14; Zec 1:5; Mt 10:28; Lu 20:34-38; 23:39-43; Joh 9:4; Ro 5:12,14; 1Co 15:21,22,26,55-57; 1Ti 6:7; 2Ti 1:10; Heb 2:14,15; 9:27; 13:14; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24; Re 1:18; 20:12-14; 21:4 → PREPARATION FOR De 32:29; 2Ki 20:1; Ps 39:4,13; 90:12; Ec 9:4,10; 11:7,8; Isa 38:18,19; Lu 12:35-37; Joh 9:4; Ro 14:8; Php 1:21; Heb 13:14; Jas 4:15; 1Pe 1:17 → OF THE RIGHTEOUS Nu 23:10; 2Sa 12:23; 2Ki 22:19,20; Ps 23:4; 31:5; 37:37; 49:15; 73:24; 116:15; Pr 14:32; Ec 7:1; Isa 57:1,2; Da 12:13; Lu 2:29; 16:22; 23:43; Joh 11:11; Ac 7:59; Ro 14:7,8; 1Co 3:21-23; 15:51-57; 2Co 1:9,10; 5:1,4,8; Php 1:20,21,23,24; 1Th 4:13,14; 5:9,10; 2Ti 4:6-8; Heb 2:14,15; 11:13; 2Pe 1:11,14; Re 14:13 → SCENES OF
* DEATH OF ISAAC Ge 27:1-4,22-40
* DEATH OF JACOB Ge 49:1-33; Heb 11:21
* DEATH OF MOSES De 31:14-30; 32:1-52; 33:1-29; 34:1-7
* DEATH OF DAVID 1Ki 2:1-10
* DEATH OF ZECHARIAH 2Ch 24:22
* DEATH OF JESUS Mt 27:34-53; Mr 15:23-38; Lu 23:27-49; Joh 19:16-30
* DEATH OF STEPHEN Ac 7:59,60
* DEATH OF PAUL 2Ti 4:6-8

→ OF THE WICKED Nu 16:30; 1Sa 25:38; 2Ch 21:6,20; Job 4:21; 18:14,18; 20:4,5,8,11; 21:13,17,18,23-26; 24:20,24; 27:8,19-23; 34:20; 36:12,14,18,20; Ps 37:1,2,9,10,35,36; 49:7,9,10,14,17,19,20; 55:23; 58:9; 73:3,4,17-20; 78:50; 92:7; Pr 2:22; 5:22,23; 10:25,27; 11:7,10; 13:9; 14:32; 21:16; 24:20; 29:1,16; Ec 8:10; Isa 14:11,15; 17:14; 26:14; Jer 16:3,4; Eze 28:8,10; Am 9:10; Lu 12:20; 16:22-28; Ac 5:3-10; 1Th 5:3 → SPIRITUAL Lu 1:79; Joh 5:24-26; 6:50,51,53; 11:26; Ro 5:12,15; 7:11; 8:5,6,12,13; 2Co 5:14; Eph 2:1,5,6; 4:18; 5:14; Col 2:13; 1Ti 5:6; 1Pe 2:24; 1Jo 5:12
* See DEPRAVITY
* See MAN, STATE OF AFTER THE FALL
* See REPROBACY

→ SECOND Pr 14:12; Eze 18:4,10,13,21,23,24; 33:8,9,11,14-16; Mt 7:13; 10:28; 25:30,41,46; Mr 9:43,44; Ro 1:32; 6:16,21,23; 8:13; 9:22; 2Th 1:9; Jas 1:15; 4:12; 2Pe 2:12; Re 2:11; 19:20; 20:14; 21:8
* See HELL
* See WICKED, PUNISHMENT OF

→ FIGURATIVE OF REGENERATION Ro 6:2-11; 7:1-10; 8:10,11; Col 2:20
* See DEAD
* See REGENERATION

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death. Death, n. a extinction of life, mortality, damnation

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Death (dĕth), n. [[OE. deth, deað, AS. deáð; akin to OS. dōð, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dauði, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead.]] 1. 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
☞ Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley. 2. 2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile. 3. 3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
A death that I abhor. Shak. Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10. 4. 4. Cause of loss of life.
Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison. 5. 5. Personified: The destroyer of life, — conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8. 6. 6. Danger of death. “In deaths oft.” 2 Cor. xi. 23.
7. 7. Murder; murderous character.
Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon. 8. 8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
To be carnally minded is death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. ☞ Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. — Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. — Death adder. (Zoöl.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); — so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. — Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. — Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. — Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. — Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. — Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. — Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. “Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.” Tennyson. — Death knell, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. — Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. — Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. — Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. — Death stroke, a stroke causing death. — Death throe, the spasm of death. — Death token, the signal of approaching death. — Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. — Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. — Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. — The gates of death, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17. — The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. — To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. “It was one who should be the death of both his parents.” Milton. Syn. — Death, Decease, Demise, Departure, Release. Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.