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Often appears with: warburton's exegesis · scripture and its interpretation · sadducees · roman views of death · religious persecution and toleration · doubt, skepticism, and certainty
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
Voltaire defends the New Testament’s revelation of the soul’s immortality by attacking Warburton’s alternative readings, recalling refutations by scholars, and contrasting Roman skepticism about afterlife punishment.
OF THE NEED OF REVELATION The greatest benefit we owe to the New Testament is that it has revealed to us the immortality of the soul. It is in vain, therefore, that this fellow Warburton tried to cloud over this important truth, by continually representing in his legation of Moses that "the ancient Jews knew nothing of this necessary dogma, and that the Sadducees did not admit it in the time of our Lord Jesus." He …