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tnment. the corres5onNdJng word Is ,heo

lament, the corresponding Word Is sheol
which signifies the state of the dead In
general, without regard TO goodness OF
badness of the persons"
DR.. Kitto, in his Cyciopadia Of the Bible,
says, 'Hades means literally that which Is
In darkness. Job, In describing the state
OF man IN death, calls 1t "a land Of dark
ness, as darkness itself'-.Job 10: 1926. A
careful examination will lead to the COM
cluslon that no sanction to an intcrmedi-
ate state is afforded by those passages
where Hddes occurs, but they denote the
Grave, both of the righteous and the wick
cd" Hades incorrectly rendered He'll, oc-
ours eleven times; sec Matt IL: 2. 3; TO: IL;
Lu 10; 10; l6;. %; Acts 2;27, 81 ! Co, 15: 30,
lin lie margin hell) ; Revl:ls; o:s; 20: ID
ia. Geheana, also Incorrectly rendered
He'll, occurs twelve times; see Matt. 8 ~,
20, 80; 1859; 23:l5, 80; Mark 0:43, 45, Al
Lu 1916; Jas. 800
DR.. Adam Clarke, commenting on Matt.
IL; %, "And thou Capernaum, which art
exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought
down to he'll" Nades, graye,) says: "Pcr-
haps not meaning here the place of tor
ment, but rather state of desolatlon. The
original word is Hades, from A, NOT, and
IDEIR. TO sEE--tle invisible receptacle or
mansion Of The dead, answering to snEoL
in Hebrew. The word Hell, used in the
common translation conveys NOW an inn
proper meaning of the original word, be-
cause Hell Is only used to signify the place
of the damned. But as the word Hell
comes from the Anglo-SaXOn, HELAN, TO
COVER OR HIDE, hence. the filling or sla-
ting OF u house is called in some parts of
England particularly Cornwall HELING,
to this day and the covers of books lin
Iancashire) by the same name so the lit
cral import of the original word Hudes
was formerly well expressed by it. Here
it means II state of the utmost woe and ru-
in, and desolation, to which these impeni-
tent cities should be reduced. This pre-
dictionu of our Lord was literally fulfilled;
for in the wars between the Romans and
the Jews these cities were totally destroy
ed, so that no traces are now found Of
Bcthsaida, Chorazin, or ~Capernaum."
Pharisec.-You have adduccd evidence
enough to convince me that the term Hell
means the Grave in all those passages
where the original Hebrew word sHEoL or
the Greek word HApEs occurs. But what
idea should be attached to GEIiENNA, which
You say is also incorrectly rendered hell +?
observation-disclosures passages in which the
u i'i@N pSS'iHf IN w Il ~
iIf the land of Israel, which was, in past
times. the scene of Judicial infections, and
which is again to become so on Il larger
scale.
Parkhurst says: "GEHENNA Is used by
the Septuagint for the Hebrew word GAI-
EMMA. SO GEuENNA in the New Testa-
mont Is in like manner u corruption OF the
Hebrew words. GAL. II valley, and HISNoM,
the name of y person who was once tie
possessor of it. This valley of llinnom lay
near Jerusalem. aud had been the place OF
those abominable sacrifices in which the
idolatrous Jews burned their children alive
to Molech. Baal, or the sun. A particular
place in this valley was called Tophet,
and the valley itself the valley of Tophet,
from the first stove in which they burned
their children to Molcch. 2 Iii 70: III; 2
Chron IS: 3."-Greeh Lection.
In this GEHENNA Sennacherib's army
was destroyed.-2 Iii. 49, 80. 1t is written
also of tlis'yallcy, termed also the valley OF
slaughter. "Behold the days come, saith
the Lord, that this place shall no more be
called Tophet, nor the son of Hinnom. but
the valley of slaughter; and | will make
void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem
in this place, and | will cause them to fall
by the sword before their enemies, and by
the hand of them that seek their liyes.'-
Jer. 10: 81; Z: 1904. In this valley of
Hinnom q. e., Gehennaj Judgment came
upon the armies of Assyria Tor depressing
Israel-Sce lisa. 30: 3l-35; 10: 5. "a, %. And
when the Lord shall be revealed from heav-
en- the valley of Hinnom will become again
the scene of future judgments on those
nations who come up against jerusalem
Zee. -: ,, g.; Joel 81, II; lisa. &C: q.
Concerning Mark 9:43, of which you
were anxious TO hear an explanation.
P%arkhurst says: Our Lord seems to al
ludc to the worms which continually
preyed on the dead carcasscs that were cast
into the valley of llinnUm q. C.. GehenNa.)
and to the perpetual fire kept up to con-
sumo them; IL place of abominable filth.
mess and pollution = Greek Lection.
E PhdrtSee.-What does Parkhurst mean
by perpetual fire. in the quotation you
have just made?
d Nozdrene--He means exactly the same
thing that the apostle Jude meant when
he said that Sodom and Gomorrah suffered
I" the vengeance of fire." In
what sense was that fire eternal, or per-
pctual? simply in its effects, for the Dead
Sea now covers the spot where those cities
once stood. Van der Palm, Il learned and
orthodox translator of the Bible, saws on
Jude 7, "As this, according to the Greek
text, Is SAID Of cities, we, must here take
the words eternal fire. in the sense of n
fire which cannot be e~xtingnished until it
has consumed everything and reduced it
to ashes" We find an illustration of this
in Jer. 1!:27, and 80 8. God told the Is
%raelites that if they did not lmllow. the
Sabbath day, He would build a fire in Je-
rusalcm, which should destroy the palaces
thereof. and it should mot be quenched,n
A short time afterward the King of Bah
ylon "burned the kings house, and the
houses of the people, with fire, and brake
down the walls of Jerusalem" From
this Illustration it is evident that Van der
Palm gives the .Scriptural meaning of per-
petuaI, eternal. or unQuenclablc fire, in
connection with the subject of punish
mcht.
WdriSee.--There are several more cues
tiOns which would be pleased to ask, but.
like Felix Of old, will wait until a more
convenient season. The errorsint the Eno-|
lisl version of the Scriptures, to which
You have alluded, are certainly very grave
ones, and it is not humiliating to my pride
to admit that | have been deceived by
them. Why is it that these errors are not
corrected, and a purer version Of the Scrip
tnres furnished to the people? lao
Ndsdrene.-A committee of learned cen
tlemen are now engaged in that work in
England, and the London correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial says that the
changes forced upon them BY the unani-
nous conclusions of scholars are as start