The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-28

It is used 10 express the Judgments Of
God against sin. When used In this
sense, L is frequently followed by. the
word translated destruction, as In the text,
Deut, 1922. "For q FIRE is kindled in
mine anger and Il shall burn unto the
lowest hell" and many similar passages.
Il is used TO declare the future condition
Of the wicked. Ps. 0:l7. "The wicked
shall be turned into hell and all the ma
tons that forget God"
These are but a few Of the many pas.
sages In the Old Testament, that should
be examined. These passages taken in
connection with all the others show
Rra-That the doctrine OF future pun:
ishment was always received in the Old
Testament Church. This doctrine was
never called in question by any consider:
able number Of people, until the sect Of
the Sadducees arose about three hundred
years before Christ.
Second While this doctrine was lesS
clearly revealed in the Old than 10 the
New Testament, it was not derived from
the imagery Of the poets or the usages oil
the heathens.
Both Job and Moses refer 10 II at a
period when the Jews probably knew
nothing about the denominations Of Mo.
loch, and long. before the poets were born,
TO whom the origin Of the doctrine is
ascribed.
Tird-While the term sheOl iSuSed in
different senses, these senses all lead
more or less directly 10 the idea Of suffer-
ing as the condition Of the impenitent
dead.
The use OF the term in one sense does
not forbid It's use in a different sense,
when the change is explained by the
connection. Because the name OF God
was applied TO idols, We are not to con.
clnde that there is no true God.
Let us now examine the terms used in
the New Testament that bear on this
subject.
The terms Hades and Gehenna are gen.
orally used. The name 1drtdrtR is used,
i believe, only once. The terms first
named are used twenty-five or thirty
times.
These examples may be placed in two
classes. In one class the word hell is
used as the synonym Of great ~wickedness.
Matth. 23:l5. "Woe unto you Scribes and
Pharises, hypocritesl For ye compass
ses and land to make one proselyte, and
when he Is made ye make him two.fold
more the child OF hell than yourselves"
In the other class the terms are used to
express the idea OF the future punish.
ment Of the wicked. Math. 10: 29th. II
thy right eye offend thee, pluck II. out
and cast 1t from thee, for it is profitable
for thee that one OF thy members should
perish,and not that thy whole body should
be cast into hell. Luke, IL: 9th. Butt
will iorewarn you whom you shall fear:
Fear him which after he hath killed, hath
power TO cast into hell. Yea, l say unto
YOU "Fear him. In Luke 10: 10, 81,
we have what is known as, the parable Of
the richman and LaZarui; in which we
find this expression; sand in hell he lifted
up his eyes being in torment" In Sec.
ond Peter, .: 4, HELM the original
Tartarus-is represented as the condi.
tons OF the fallen angels.
Besides these, there are numerous pas.
sages Of this class that need not be quoted.
There are many others in which the word
hell ia not used, that are ever palmer
aud more forcible, in asserting the condi.
ton Of future misery. For example
in Math. 25: 81, 40, the general judgment
is described. OF the wicked It is said,
depart from me, ye cursed, into eyerlast.
ing fire. prepared for the devil and
his angels,-and "these should go away
into everlasting punishment" Math.
Is: Al, ~. "The Son OF Man shall send
forth his angels and they, shall gather
out Of bis kingdom, all things That offend,
and them which do iniquity, and shall
cast them into a furnace Of fire; there
shall be wailing and gnashing Of teeth.n
To these, an almost indefinite number
Of similar passages might be added.
If we deny the punishment Of the
wicked we must also deny the reward Of
the righteous; for they are supported by
the same kind and amount OF testimony.
The old Sadducees were more consistent
than modern Rceptics for they denied that
there was any future existence, either OF
happiness or misery.
Let us now review the ground over
which we have passed, and state such
points as must in the nature Of things be
used rs premises, from which 10 come to
an intelligent conclusion.
Era-We find a Hebrew word used by
Job and Moses, the first Of the sacred
writers, as the name Of the condition OF
man after death, and as that term Is fire..
quently employed to describe 4 condi-
ton OF suffering, and as its use for any
other purpose is a and exceptional, so
it must describe the suffering Of the soul
after death.
Seeond-We find three Greek words
used in the New Testament as the name
Of hat condition described by the He
brew word referred 10 above, two Of
which are used in its translation into the
Greek tongue. These terms are used in
such connections as necessarily to convey
the idea of n condition Of suffering after
death.
IRid-We find a condition Of future
punishment clearly described in various
passages, in both the Old and New Testa.
ment, wherein other terms than those
translated by the word hell are used,
showing that the doctrine Of future pun
ishment does not rest on these terms
alone.