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.S1eoi il a Hebrew word Of frequent occurrence in
the Old Testament. and il is translated in the Eng
Iish Bible by grare, pat, and he'll. Its Greek equiv
alent is hades-
Did the Hebrews attach the same idea to Ghs0i
which the words grave, pit and he'll convey to us!
If not, what was their idea Of the word.
IL is supposed to he derived from a word signify
ing 10 osk, or demand, or 10 be asked after. The
bereaved are ever iDquiring into the state OF the de-
parted. Uhers are they IRE they happy DO
thy remember and lore us7 And many such in
ouiries are ever in the minds Of those who have lost
dear friends.
The word first occurs in Cen xxxvii: as" Jacob
refused TO be comforted, and said, | will go down
into sheol, TO my son mourning"
The Hebrews have q word for gr0rs, keller, and
this is derived from tie verb kdbar, to bury. Now
IL Jacob meant the grace, why did he not say, 1 will
20 down into kebeTa But the Hebrews never speak
of burying in sheoI. as they would If the word
meant graz.
am aware that the vulgate translation, by
emitting the conjunction, and by a different
punctuation, makes Luke to say. "Mortuus est
autem ct dives, ct sepultus est in inferno -
" And the rich man also died, and he was buried in
heIL"-Luke xvii: y. But the sacred writers no
where authorize such an idea When Rachel died
and was buried in the way to Ephrath, Jacob did
not set up n pillar upon her shsoi, but upon her
ksber.-Gen. xxxv: 20. OF Abijah, the son Of Jero-
beam, it was said, "For he only Of Jeroboam shall
come to the gravel Kings xiv: IL. Rs6er is the
word used. Jeroboam and all his family went to
sisoi. See also Isaiah Iii: Q, and jeremiah viii: /.
Ezekiel says, xxxyii: -. Thus saith the Lord
God, behold, o roy people, I viii open your graves,
and cause you to come up out of your graves"
Israel was represented by dry bones and keller was
for dead bodies ard bones Sheoi was the place Of
departed spirits.
There are indeed two passages which seem to
countenance the idea that sheol and the grave ex-
press the same idea or that sheol is n place Of dead
bodies In Luke xvi: %. %, we read that The
rich man died and was buried and in hades he
lifted up his eyes being in torment" Now it is not
to be supposed that he was buried in hadss. or shSoI,
nor that he lifted up his eyes in the grave nor that
he was in torment in the grave. The two ideas must
be distinct, that his body was buried in the grave.
his soul was in torment in hades. 1t cannot be
objected against this view that mention is made OF
his eyes and tongue ; for Col is represented as hav-
ing all the bodily members
The other passage is in the 18th Of Isaiah where
steol is represented as being moved at the coming Of
the king Of Babylon, and as stirring up the shades,
or ghosts, to meet him.-V-
In the 11th verse he Is represented rs being
covered with worms, while worms are spread under
him. Those who had suffered from his grasping
and who had gone before him TO sheol, re-
him, on his coming, with his altered cir
cumstances, both as TO his soul and body. As n
shade or ghost, he was as weak, as powerless as
As to his body. they reproach him with
having been cast out Of his grave. which was re
garded by the ancients as the greatest dishonor and
rs being covered with worms
Rephafm is She Hebrew word for Shades, the in
Of sheol. In Prov. *: 1s, we read Of
who listens 70 the enticements Of the bad wo-
man: ''He knoweth not that the shades are there
her guests in the valleys Of sheol." The meaning
to be, so surely are her guests ~hasiening 10
shsol, that they may be already regarded as inhabi-
Prov. ii: 10, Her house sinketh down to death ;
and her paths to the shGdss.'' Prov. xxi: 16. "The
man, who wanders from the way Of discretion, shall
iwell in the as-embly of the shades"
Job represents the shodss as trembling before the
eternal, ch. xxvi:5 Isaiah addresses the king of
in the loftiest strains of poetry, ch. xiv: D.
6 Sheol beneath is in commotion ON account Of thee,
% meet thee at thy coming: he stirreth up before
the shades. all the mighty Of the earth" Here
III the kings Of the nations, and all who had been
mighty on earth are represented as shades, or inhab-
tants of sheol. an who aad lived are of course in
The word is also found twice in the 18th Of Isaiah.
he prophet is speaking Of the judgments which the
.sraelites had suffered, and of their present exemp-
ion from those juigments1"O Lord, our God,
.ords besides thee have had dominion over u.s."
Tow, E" they are dead ; they shall not live they are
tades, they shall not rise for thou hast visited and
estroyed them."-V. IA.
In verse 19 we read, Awake and sing, We that
wen in the dust. e. e. We dead,) for the dew of
lants is thy dew, and the earth shall bring forth
he shades The dead bodies shall arise from the
raves, and the departed spirits shall come hack
rom sheol and claim each its own body. SO in Rev.
13, hades is represented rs delivering up the
cad which were in IT,
Here I must refer to n noble passage in Phil. Il: :
0. IL, in which oil created beings are represented
; being in profound subsection to the Savior
That Mt the name Of Jesus every knee should bow !
7 those in heaven, and those on the earth, and
under the earth Theodoret says that these {
nder the earth are the souls Of the departed, the
Inhabitants Of sheol-
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