Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-10-25

WHARF, fs IT AND WHAT Is IIf-EEhn"N III hE'.
W. L. sTIMMEIL.
At Madeley Chapel, yesterday morning, Rev,
W. E.stmmell prea ,hed discourse on tue looa-
ton and character of He'll, prefacing hs sermon
with the remark that il there il such place,
and if II is place OF darkness and suffering, we
ought to know 1t. He thought the original
name ''Sheo" or ''Hades' should never have
been changed In the Hebrew scriptures the
word "SheoI' occurs sixty-hye times; in thirty
one instances it is translated "graye," IN thirty
one other places Hell, and three times pit.
In the New Testament 1t occurs eleven t!ines,
once as grave and ten times az "Hell
II any one will take the time or paine TO col
lect all of these and compare them, lie Will find
that He'll ia not the grave-not Hen-nor yet
the unseen world, including Heaven aud Hell.
1t il not the state OF death, but place in the
unseen world, distinct from Heaven and He'll
having before the.reeuuection OF Christs two
Compartments one for the good, the other for
the bad, to which all the souz OF the good are
carried, as well as the bad.
| Sheol hrst occurs in Genesis, 31:35. In the
99l verre, Jacob SAYS, Joseph had been de-
stroyed by an evil beast, 20 lie could not find
| him IN the grave" Tile same thought is con-
veved Ia Isaiah l4;l5. In one OF these places 1t
| is translated grave, In the other Hell. To the
| English reader would seem to convey
| place Of torment, the other grave, rest, &c.
| Now, tie word that il used for grave is
Keber, and it IN the singular and plural number.
| The fret place is Genesis 23:4 20, and the sec
| oud. Exodus l4;ll. 1t il purchased and sold,
ueneris sos it s dug, and IN the ssme chap
| ter, 18th verse it is burning place. Thus We
| might 80 on.
| There are other expressions that convey 10
| the mind place different from the grave.
! Lowest Hader, Deuteronomy SO % Psalms.
| So i3 depths of Hades. Prov, 3 Is midst Of
| IIades Ezekiel, 80 81 ''shall SPEAK to him out
| Of the midst OF Hades "Fhen we read OF the
rorrowz Of Hades. End sam. 2 ps .itns, Is
| 8 and q - Pains OF Hade-. ll6 3 " Jonah
| cried out OF the belly Of He'll, that ia Sheol lie
represented by the belly OF the fish. Now il
must be observed tia. IN no place in the Scrip
tures are such expressions used with reference TO
| the Hebrew word for grave proper-that Ia
| Keber
| hope have gwen enough OF Scripture from
| the Old Testament to chow that tie grave IL not
| the resting place OF the whole man Mahy others
might be given. The distinction in the New Tes-
lament is even more clear, if anything, than the
Old. will give specimen Of New Testament
passages Matt. ii 23, Thou Cspernaum
which art exalted unto Heaven shalt be brought
down to He'll" Matt. IL Is. i" The gates OF
He'll shall not prevail against il, (Ihat IL the
church, Luke, 10 10, i" And thou Capernaun
| shalt be thurst down TO He'll" Luke, 10 % And
in He'll he lifted mp his eyes beng in torment "
Acts 527 81. "His eoul was not left in He'll,
| that ia Hsdes Acts 2;3l, II have the keys OF
Hsdes and death. Rev. las. 'His name was
Death and Hades followed with him Rev.
1 II D.
that were in them" Rev 20;l4 death and
| Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
Now that Sheol was the resting place OF the
| good and the bad. For. II Jacob expected
| u 70 to hs son Joseph, he must have believed
his son was in come place OF rest, and the grave
could not have been that place because he said
| he WAS destroyed with evil beast And
how clearly il this set forth III the case OF the
| rich man and Lazarus. One was in a condition
| of sorrow, the other in a condition Of rest Aud
| all the friltciing that ingenuity can bring can
| explain away such plain distinctions OF SCRIP
| ture. Hence it is a place in the unseen world,
| where the good and the bad waited for their re-
ward, as the prisoner waits in prison for HE
| trial before lie goes to the last place OF punsh'
| ment. namely tho penitentiary
| But where il il located The Jews and Creeks
in the days OF Josephus thought it was III the
centre Of the earth. Ysu rem sInber the Ssvioi
said as Jonah was three days aud nights in the
fsh's belly, must the son Of man be three
DAYS aud nights in the bowels of the earth
| Look at Ephesians, 4 g" He that ascended
alao desc ndedinto the lower parts OF the earth
| There might be other scriptures produced which
would seem TO go to show that the places or the
| good and bad were somewhere III tho earth
center, previous to the resurrection Of Christ
But whether this il tue conclusion or not
will not now insi-t on.
| But wherev yer il may be, tho son OF God went
to il for the purpOse OF delivering the Old les
lament Saints. The prophet Isaiah Gays Sling
| o ie Heavens, for the Lord hath done IT. Shout
Ye Lower Parts OF tile Earth. Hosea. l311
al will deliver them from the hand'
OF Hades or Sheol. Aud when Je
sua was crucifed, you remember there
| were some that came out OF their graves and al
| psared to many Ill the city But II he delivered
tile Old Testament Saints, where do the good e
to now snawer to Heaven, aud the bad All
retained IN Hsdee until the judgment.
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