Daily globe., 1879-02-09
HE'LL AGAIN!
A Hunt Through the Bible for the PoDuln,
He'll.

A Hunt Through the Bible for the Popular
He'll.
To the Editor of the Globe.
The question of hell appears to be receiving
moro than ordinary attention just now, and
knowing your paper to be alive to all that
interests the reading and thinking public, I
venture to ask the insertion of short article
in your columns on the use of the word hell.
We find, on examination, that four aDords
occur in the original scriptures translated in
our English bible hell, viz: sheol, hades,
ge7,enna and tartarus. Sheol occurs sixty-four
times; hades, eleven; gehenna, twelve and
tartarus once-making in all, eighty-elght
occurrences of these words in the original
Hebrew and Greek scriptures. In our efforts
to ascertain what kind of place hell is we
must examine with care the testimony Of the
bible concerning it.
1t will not be necessary to reproduce in this
article every place it occurs-samples of each
kind of hell will be all that is necessary to a
correct understanding Of the scripture teach
ing upon the subject.
We will begin with the first named hell
.sheot. This word, as I have before said, occurs
sazty.f four times. A very good idea of the view
the translators had of this word can be obtain
ed by noticing their translation of it into Eng
lish; by hell, thirty-o1se times, and pit, three
times. will give samples Of each. 1t is trans.
lated Pit. Mum. xvi, 3-33, ''Korah, Dathon and
Abiraim, they, and all that appertained to
them, went down alive into the pit (sheoD, and
the earth closed upon them, and they persisted
from among the congregation" 1t certainly is
not difficult to understand the kind of hell they
were cast into as punishment for their re-
bellior. The earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them up-they peris7sed from among
men.
will next notice Craze as a translation from
the same word sheol. 20 that thou wouldst
hide me in the grave (aheoI) that thou wouldst
keep me secret until thy wrath be past, that
thou wouldst appoint me set time and re-
member me. All the days of my appointed
time will ,cait till my change come.' Chap.
xvii, 13 shows where he will wait. eff wait.
the grave (sheoD is nay house. I have made my
bed in the darkness. The hell in this case is the
dark abode of the grave where Job and all the
faithful dead are awaiting a resurrection
to Judgment. The next and last sample of this
kind Of hell (sheoD which we will produce, re-
lates .of Christ. Psalms xvi, 10, ''For thou
will not leave my soul in hell (sheoD neither
wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corrup-
ton This psalm is quoted by Peter at Pen
tecost and referred to Christ. Acts ii, 81. He
seeing this before spake of the resurrection of
Christ that his soul (person) was not left in hell
(hades) neither did his flesh see corruption
The hell from which Christ emerged by resur-
rectlon, was not the place where souls 20 for
torment The hell IN this was none other
than Joseph's nc,y tomb. have now furnished
samples of the three kinds of hell which our
translators produced from the one Hebrew word
Steol. Next in order is hades. I must leave
the old testament now, and turn to the new,
continuing nv search in the Greek. Hades
occurs eleven times in the new testament, and
is an equivalent of the Hebrew sheol. Peter,
sneaking in Greek, uses hades in Acts ii, 81,
where the psalmist, (Psalms xvi, 10Y used she0z
so We shall find the same idea in hades as are
found in sheol. This is also translated hell and
grace.
In Cor. XIV: IS, we find Hades translated
grdre. ~ death, where is thy sting? o grave,
do TO translate this hell with the theological
and pulpit hell before the mind. Here the
victim shouts triumphantly, s'Where is thu
uacto1Yy' He'll claimed the victim as his for
ever, but now the tables are turned. Read the
entire chapter and you cannot fail to see that
deliverance from the grave by resurrection, is
the subject under discussion, and not exit
from the flames of the orthodox hell Hades is
translated hell in Rev. Xxx: 13: "And the sea
gave up the dead which were in it; and death
and hell (hades) delivered up the DEAD which
were in them" Here was good chance to put
in hell. They come forth to Judgment out of
hell They 60 there when they die, taste the
to judgment, and what for, 1 would
ask? To correct the errors, if any
may have occurred, in the first judg-
ment, which sent them there? Singular
proceedings of the infinite mind no, this
should have been translated grave, like the
case in Cor. Take particular notice that they
are dead in this hell. The case in the parable
OF the rich man and Lazarus may be thought
all insurmountable objection to this view, and
very clear case for the popular hell. See
Luke 16, 22-23 "And it came to pass that the
beggar died, and was carried by the angels into
anovV r. 4l1,, H.. ~
was buried; and in hell, (hades, the place where
buried) he lifted up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar of, and Lazarus in his
BOSOM" l will not undertake an exposition of
this parable for want of space, but suffice it to
say that it is not difficult to harmonize this case
with the other two occurrences in Cor. and
Rev., when we remember that by a figure of
speech dead men. trees. stones, beam
and blood are represented as speaking See
Josh. g. SIS. The trees have regular discus
sion, Heb. 2, IL. The stone cries out of the
wall. and the beam out of the timber answers.
In Gen. 4.1O, AbePs blood cries from the
ground. If inanimate matter. by figure is
represented as conscious and speaking, a dead
man who, when alive, was conscious and could
speak may, without any violation of language
or usage, be thus represented.
The next hell in the new testament will
notice is 7a'ta1uS found but once, and ap-
piled to the angels. I'd Peter 2-4: For if God
them down to hell Tartarus) and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
unto judgment" The darkness of
the grave is the idea expressed
Dy Peter, or an equivalent
death. The grave or an equivalent state is the
place of death, where all the dead are in prison,
awaiting future judgment. ''Solid, and i'm
movable darkness, which surrounds the ma
terial universe" is the defninition given to
this word by Parkhurst in his Greek lexicon.
Ne now come to the last of the hells found
in the bible Gehenna. It occurs twelve times.
and signifies the valley of Hinnom. Hinnom
Is the name of the person who was once the
possessor OF it, This occurs in the following
named places in the new testament: Math.
5:22. 80, 80; 1923; 1879; 23:l5, 33; Mark 9:43,
45. 47; Luke 1876; James 3:6.
This valley of Hinnom lay near Jerusalem,
and had been the place of these abominable
sacrifices in which idolatrous Jews burned
their children alive TO Mo!och, Baal or the sum-
particular place in this valley was called
Tophet, and the valley itself the valley of To-
phet, from the fire stove in which they burned
their children to Moloch. See 20 kin gs, 2S:1O;
20 Chron, 28s; Jer. 1882: 1885, s2:s5.
The prophet, jeremiah, predicts that the
days shall come when it shall no more be
called Tophet or the valley of the son of Hin
nom, but the valley of slaughter for they shall
bury in Tophet till there be no place, Jer.
81 :32. This is the hell carried forward into the
new testament and made the foundation for
all the pulpit eloquence upon this subject. If
this proves upon examination, to be place of
destruction instead of preservation in the burn
ing flames, the entire stock in trade is gone
BEREAN.
ADJUSTMENTS.