Prison-house of the Grave

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God:

lighten mine eyes,

lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalm 13:3

"That the grave, whither we all tend, expressed by the Hebrew word “sheol” and the Greek word “hades,” is a place, or condition, in which there is no work, device, wisdom, nor knowledge, Eccl. 9:10. 23.

That the state to which we are reduced by death is
--one of silence,
--inactivity,
--and entire unconsciousness. 

Ps. 146:4; Eccl. 9:5, 6; Dan. 12:2. 24.

That out of this prison-house of the grave, mankind are to be

brought by a bodily resurrection,
-----the righteous having part in the first resurrection, which takes place at the second coming of Christ;
-----the wicked in the second resurrection, which takes place in a thousand years thereafter. 

Rev. 20:4, 6. 25." 

Uriah Smith