In dealing with this Scripture and the subject of the so-called intermediate state it is important that we should confine ourselves to the *Word of God * and not go to Tradition. Yet when nine out of ten believe what they have learned from Tradition we have a thankless task so far as pleasing man is concerned. We might give our own ideas as the employments etc. of the departed and man would deal leniently with us. But let us only put *Gods Revelation* against mans imagination and then we shall b