The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-11-11
RELIGIOUS.
A Treatise on Hades and Paradise.
Oct. 2S, 1SS0-6m.

Hades is Greek word, and in con-
sidering it we will have to quote from
some Hebrew and Greek scholars, as
we do not understand Hebrew or Greek.
We will first give an extract from
Chas. L. Ives, late Professor Of Theory
and Practice Of Medicine in Yale Col
lege. 'The place, or state Of the dead,
is denoted in the original Hebrew of
the Bible by the word sheol; in the
Greek, by the word hades. Now if
we can determine the real meaning Of
these words, the question Of the inter
mediate state Of the dead is decided.
Our theological authorities seem in
clined to seek for the meaning Of
hades in the classic Greek, and from
that, as starting point to reason back
to the earlier Heb. sheol, upon the
meaning of which it's Biblical meaning
is wholly dependent. It is then
primary question, what is the meaning
Of sHEoL. as used in the Bible? To
decide this we have but to study the
Bible examples Of it's use. The ques-
ton is much simplifed in that it
really lies between two meanings, so
opposed to each other that both can
not be right Two renderings, the
grave and he'll, are used by our trans
lators, each in nearly equal proper
tions.
Sometimes both renderings are CIV
en-one in the text, the other in the
margin. Beginning with the Books
Of Moses, we find the question is there
virtually decided. Sheol occurs in
these books several times. The first
six times it unquestionably means the
grave. Would any writer, having
thus by usage established meaning,
on using it again give to it totally
different meaning, and without any
explanation? Yet on its seventh oc-
currence our translators. in defiance
of the context, render it hell Thus:
Gen. 37:35. L will go down into
sheol &c. v the grave) unto my son,
mourning Gen. 1878. Then shall
ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to sheor (E. V. the grave.)
Gen. A 90. My gray hairs with sor-
row to sheol' E. V. the grave.l Gen.
44:31. His gray hairs to sheol (E. V.
the grave.) Mum. 1880. 'If the earth
open her mouth and swallow them up,
and they go down quick alive unto
sheol' (E. v the pit, evidently mean
ing the grave) Mum. 1888. They
went down, down, alive into sheor
(E. V. the pit) Deut. 1922. For
burn unto the lowest sheol (E. V.
hell,) and Shall consume the earth
with her increase, and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains In
Genesis, it would hardly do to make
Jacob say he was going down to hell,
or for his sons to say it of him. In
the passage from Numbers, if one
were to translate sheol hell, he must
accept the inference that as these
wicked men went into that hell alive
they went not as 'disembodied spirits,
but carrying their bodies with them,
which entirely does away with even
that limited resurrection (of the body
only,) allowed by modern theology.
That could not be, and so Deut. 1920
was the only opportunity to influence
the English reader by putting the
word hell into the books of the law.
And in this instance it is strangely at
variance with the context. and also
with the present orthodox ideas; for
the Lord is speaking Of physical fire
which shall consume the earth and the
foundations Of the mountains; as is
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Sheol next occurs l Sam. 2:6. The
Lord kilIeth and maketh alive; he
bringeth down to sheol (E. V. the
crave and bringeth up from sheol,
the grave; certainly, there is no res
direction, or bringing up, from the
hell Of modern theology. And, ac-
cording to the paralielism of Hebrew
poetry, bringing down to, and bring
inc up from sheol,' corresponds to
killing and making alive 2 Sam.
1916. The sorrows margin, Heb.
cords Of sheol &c. V, helll compassed
me about; the snares of death pre-
vented me- Here the parallelism OF
Hebrew poetry demands the rendering
the cords of the grave, to correspond
with the 'snares of death. l Kings
2:9. His hoar head bringeth thou
down to sheol,' (E. Y. the grave; hence
certainly not hell) Job 10. Goest
down to sheoI (E. Y. the graye.) Jot
14:13. % that thou wouldst hide me
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