Faith in the immortality of the soul, the nature of which was not perhaps very precisely defined, may be said to be a kind of tacit understanding or supposition underlying the whole of the Gospel; and it is the mental orientation of many of those who read it to-day, an orientation contrary to that of the Christians from among whom the Gospel sprang, that prevents them from seeing this.
Arimaren hilezintasunaren fedea, eta horren izaera, beharbada, ez ziren asko zehazten, eta hori guztiori Ebangelio osoan nolabait, esan gabeko ustekizun gisa, azpiulerturik doala susma daiteke, eta gaur hura irakurtzen duten askoren izpirituaren egoerak berak, Ebangelioa beren artean sortzen ikusi zuten beste kristau haien egoeraren aurkakoa denak, ez die uzten horiek ikusten.