QUES. 28.-Were the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil one and the same tree?

ANS.-Surely not. The tree of life is Christ in type-God's grace; while the tree of knowledge of good and evil is our responsibility, our obedience-God's government.

QUES. 29.-God put a flaming sword to keep Adam and Eve from eating of the tree of life, lest they should eat and live forever. He had given them liberty to eat of all the trees except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Does that imply that they never ate of the tree of life while they were in the garden, before they ate of the prohibited tree, and fell ?

ANS.-Scripture is silent as to whether or not they ate of the tree of life before they fell; nor does it say whether their living forever depended on their eating of it continuously or only once, though the form of the reading seems to teach they would have become immortal in the flesh by eating once. But Scripture is busy with other thoughts, and of far greater importance. For man to live forever in his fallen condition would have made his redemption impossible, and barred out God's eternal purpose of grace and glory in Christ Jesus, which is through death and resurrection.

QUES. 30.-Is Acts 1:11 the Lord's coming for His saints, or with them ?

ANS.-It is not the Christian hope here, but still the Jewish, and therefore not the rapture, but the appearing.

QUES. 31.-In 1 Thess. 4 :14, "Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him " :when will God bring them with Him ?

ANS. At the moment spoken of in ver. 16. The whole passage seems evidently to be a question of resurrection. As Jesus was brought out from among the dead, so will God bring with Him all who are asleep in Him. Then follows the revelation of the rapture together, both of those raised and of those who are alive at that time.

QUES. 32.-Did Judas Iscariot ever partake of the Lord's Supper? There are some here who seem to think that he did, and I greatly desire to know the truth of Scripture as to this.

ANS.-It seems quite plain from John 13:30 that Judas was not there when the Lord instituted His Supper, which took place only at the end of the Passover Supper. The sop was given while the Passover Supper was going on.

In the account of Matthew, chap. 26, Judas' exit would be between verses 25 and 26; in Mark, chap. 14, between verses 21 and 22. Luke alone presents a little difficulty by speaking of Judas (chap. 22:21) after mentioning the Lord's Supper (verses 19, 20). There need be no difficulty, however, as in all kinds of narratives certain details which occurred between the great facts are often mentioned at the end only, when all the facts themselves have been told.

We may therefore conclude from John 13 :30 that our Lord's words in Luke 22 :21-23 were uttered somewhere during the Passover Supper, before He instituted the remembrance of Himself in what is called "the Lord's Supper."

We would add, in warning, that some have sought to place Judas at the Lord's Supper as a precedent for the unholy, yet sadly frequent, practice of allowing evil men to partake of that Supper. All Scripture condemns this ; 1 Cor. 5 deals expressly with it; Christian holiness revolts against it. Besides, even if it could be shown that Judas participated in the Lord's Supper, it would be no precedent for this evil practice, for Judas was not yet manifested, and it is when manifested the Lord requires expulsion of the evil out of His house.

QUES. 33. "Help and Food " for Aug., 1908, page 208, beginning twelfth line from bottom of page is one statement referring to fossilized man. On page 217, fifth line from bottom is another statement apparently contradicting the first one. As both appear to be from eminent authority, will you kindly explain why so contradictory ?

ANS. The "fossilized human skeletons "spoken of on page 208 refer to bodies preserved from the most ancient times known-the historic fossils, which abound everywhere.

The " fossil man " referred to on page 217 is the "pre-historic " fossil-the attempt to prove that man existed before the Adam of Genesis I. Of this there exists none.