It is said that eternal life could not have been possessed by the Old Testament saints, because of the word "the Son of man must be lifted up" that the believer might have eternal life. As well might it be said that they could not have been justified, for the Lord had not been delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification. But Abraham we know was justified. But there is a reason why eternal life was not proclaimed in the Old Testament-though possessed then by the believer. After the first book of the Old Testament, which showed the end of the first life in death, Israel is called out, and put under the law. This occupies the rest of the Old Testament; man is on trial, under law, to see if he could get life. Naturally, therefore, the gospel proclaiming life and justification to the believer, is postponed until the close of the trial.

But the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. Those who had learned their lesson by the law-the knowledge of sin-believed on the coming Saviour, and were born again-were possessors of eternal life. Thus Andrew said to Peter (John 1:41), "We have found the Messiah" that is, "the Christ." So Moses endured "the reproach of Christ." Enoch and Elijah went in triumph to heaven. Did they go to heaven without eternal life? Let us recall what was said to some by the Lord, "Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." E. S. L.