and DAMNATION, are words synonymous with condemn and condemnation.
Generally speaking, the words are taken to denote the final and eternal
punishment of the ungodly. These terms, however, sometimes occur in the
New Testament in what may be termed a less strict, or secondary sense.
Thus, when the Apostle says to the Romans, “He that doubteth,” namely,
the lawfulness of what he is doing, “is _damned_ if he eat,” Rom. xiv,
23; the meaning is, he stands condemned in his own mind. Again: when St.
Paul tells the Corinthians, that “he that eateth and drinketh” of the
Lord’s Supper “unworthily, eateth and drinketh _damnation_ to himself,”
1 Cor. xi, 29; the original word, κρίμα, there is thought by many to
import no more than temporal judgments, and that the Apostle explains
himself in the same sense when he says, “For this cause many among you
are weak and sickly, and many sleep,” or die. This is at least one mode
of interpreting the “damnation” of which St. Paul here speaks; but
probably the true sense is the bringing guilt upon the conscience, and
thereby a liability, without remission, to future judgment.
Generally speaking, the words are taken to denote the final and eternal
punishment of the ungodly. These terms, however, sometimes occur in the
New Testament in what may be termed a less strict, or secondary sense.
Thus, when the Apostle says to the Romans, “He that doubteth,” namely,
the lawfulness of what he is doing, “is _damned_ if he eat,” Rom. xiv,
23; the meaning is, he stands condemned in his own mind. Again: when St.
Paul tells the Corinthians, that “he that eateth and drinketh” of the
Lord’s Supper “unworthily, eateth and drinketh _damnation_ to himself,”
1 Cor. xi, 29; the original word, κρίμα, there is thought by many to
import no more than temporal judgments, and that the Apostle explains
himself in the same sense when he says, “For this cause many among you
are weak and sickly, and many sleep,” or die. This is at least one mode
of interpreting the “damnation” of which St. Paul here speaks; but
probably the true sense is the bringing guilt upon the conscience, and
thereby a liability, without remission, to future judgment.