It is a fearful thing when a man and all his hopes die together. Thus
saith Solomon of the wicked, Prov. xi. 7.--When he dieth, then die his
hopes; (many of them _before_, but at the utmost _then_, all of them;)
but _the righteous hath hope in his death_, Prov. xiv. 32.[50]
[50] One of the numerous proofs against those who with a strange
inconsistency hold the Old Testament to have been inspired throughout,
and yet deny that the doctrine of a future state is taught therein.