_Eternal Life._--In the _Mishna_ (Berachoth, ch. ix. s. 5) the doctrine of
a future eternal state is clearly set forth in a passage which is rendered
by De Sola and Raphall:
"But since the Epicureans perversely taught, there is but one state of
existence, it was directed that men should close their benedictions
with the form [Blessed be the Lord God of Israel] from eternity to
eternity."
A like explicit declaration of such future state occurs again in the
_Mishna_ (Sanhedrin, ch. xi. s. l.).