Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-10-28
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WHERE IL II AND WHAT Is Ir?-sERMoN ny REV.
". u. srIAMELL.
At AIsdeey Chapel, Sunday morning, Rev.
W. Il, Stmmell prca shed discourse on the loca-
ton and character of He'll, prefacing his sermon
with the remark that il there is such place,
and if it is a place Of darkness and suffering, we
ought to know it. He thought the original
name, 'Sheof or "Hsdes should never nave
been changed. In the Hebrew scriptures the
word 'sSheol' occurs sixty-hve times; in thirty
one instances it is translated grave" in thirty.
| one other places s'Hsll' and three times 'pit."
In the New Testament It occur. eleven un'es'
once as ''graye and ten tunes rs "Hell;
| II any one will take the time or pains 70 col,
lect all Of these and compare them, he will hnd
that He'll is not the grave-not Hell-nor YET
the unseen world, including Heaven md he,l:
| 1t is not the state Of death, but place NJ tne
unseen world, distinct from Heaven and Hell
having before the.resurrection OF Christie TWO
compartments-one for the good, the other for
the bad, to which all the souls OF the good are
carried, AZ well as the bad.
Sheoi first occurs in Genesis, 3735 In the
33d verse, Jacob says, "Joseph had been De,
stroyed by an evil beast, 20 he could not nna
him m the grave" The same though. ~ COZ. =,
is translated grave, in the other He'll. To the
English reader one would seem TO convey
place Of torment, the other grave rest, %c.
Now, tho word that is used for grave is
Keber, and is in the singular and plural nnnlper'
The first place is Genesis, 23;4 20, and the sec
ond. Exodus l4:ll. 1t is purchased and sold,
Genesis sos I; it is dug, and in the same chap
tor, 18th verse II is burning place. Thus we
might 80 on. - -,
, There are other expressions that convey to
!; the mind a place different from the grave.
Lowest Hades, Deuteronomy SO ~ Psalms.
, So 10 depths of Hades. Prov, 0 Is midst OF
: Hsdes, Ezekiel, 80 :2l. "Shall speak to him out
I of the midst Of Hades" "rhen we read Of the
sorrows OF Hades. End Sam. % 9 Ps'lms, IL !;
r and 9. "Pans of Hades," lid 8. m Jonah
cried ont of the belly Of Hell, that is sheol u
J, represented BY the belly Of the fish. Now it
: m,,st be observed that in place in the SCRIP
tures are such expressions used with reference TO
n the Hebrew word for grave proper-that Is
= Keber. ....- x-.,
: the Old Testament to show that the grave is not
d the resting place OF the whole man. Many others
might be given. The distinction in the New les
l. tament is moro clear, if anything than the
Old. will give specimen Of New Testament
], passages Matt il 2s, "Thou Cspernaun
!, which art exalted unto Heaven shalt be brought
down to He'll" Matt. l6 IS. :" The gates Of
,. He'll shall not prevail against Il" Chat Is the
r. church, Luke, 10; 15 And thou Capernann
m shalt be thurst down to He'll" Luke, 16 23 "AnS
in He'll he lifted up his eyes being in torment ,
N Acts 5;27 81. "IIis soul was not left in He'll.
7. that is Hades Acts 23l, II have the keys o.
Haaes and death. Rev. las, "Hs name wa'
J. Death and Hahes followed with him" Rev
IL 22:I3. "Death and Hades delivered up the deat
%. that were in them" Rev. 2o:l4 death ant
r. Hsdes were cast into the lake OF nre
p Now that Sheo was the resting place OF th'
'y good and the bad. For. il Jacob expecte
lg To 20 to his son Joseph, he must have believes
on his son WAS in some place OF rest, and the gray
'rs could not have been that place because he SAL
1T he WAS destroyed with an evil beast. An
III how clearly il this set forth in the case OF til
to rich man and Lazarus. One was in conditio
,p- of sorrow the other in 4 condition OF rest. An
all the fritteiing that ingenuity can bring can
SO explain away such plain distinctions OF Scril
Ar- ture Hence it is place in the unseen worl'
m, where the good and the bad waited for their r
mt ward, aa the prisoner waits in prison for d
,ht trial before he goes to the last place OF puhie
OF ment, namely tho penitentlary.
led But where la it located2 The Jews and dreel
ert in the days OF Josephus thought it was in u
vas centre of the earth. Yen rem amber the Sav
said a. Jonah was three days and nights in Il
tishs belly, so must the son Of man be thr
-. DAYS and nights in the bowels OF the cart
ia Look at Epheslans, 4: 9-"H He that ascend
also desc ndedinto the lower parts Of the earth
'e" There might be other scriptures produced wh
a, would seem to 20 to show that the places Of d
.ne ' good and bad were somewhere in the eartl
III, n center, previous to tho resurrection OF Chri
M ia'l But whether this is true conclusion or no
H.. @ will not now insist on.
ha! nat But wherever it may be, the son OF God we
~. to 1t for the purpose Of delivering the Old ~
,.ss ~. lament Saints. The prophet Isaiah says ''Si
sN o Ye Heavens, for the Lord hath done it. She
IaI ps, Ye Lower Parts Of the Earth Hosea. 1915
l@'' II will deliver them from the hAr
sny .a sus was crucifed, you remember thu
se we're some that came out Of their graves and
!" peared to many in the city. But II he deliver
,o,, the Old Testament Saints, where do the good
AeN. to now? 1 answer to Heaven, and the bad
.ne retained in Hades until the Judgment.