So St.Paul expressly teaches: and as the passage (1.

'Cor'.

xv.
35--54,) was written for the express purpose of rectifying the notions of the converts concerning the Resurrection, all other passages in the New Testament must be interpreted in harmony with it.

But John, likewise,--describing the same great event, as subsequent to, and contra-distinguished from, the partial or millennary Resurrection--which (whether we are to understand the Apostle symbolically or literally) is to take place in the present world,--beholds 'a new earth' and 'a new heaven' as antecedent to, or coincident with, the appearance of the New Jerusalem,--that is, the state of glory, and the resurrection to life everlasting.

The old earth and its heaven had passed away from the face of Him on the throne, at the moment that it gave up the dead.