The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-11-11

sented as comforted; here, a dead one
IS represented as tormented; both in
the graves; for we are told the rich
man was in hades; it is explicitly
stated that the same one died and was
/ buried. No one questions but what
1 those O. L. passages are highly
! wrought, dramatic representations of
how dead ones might be supposed to
feel and speak Certainly, it is the
same figure in Luke. And to inter-
pref in like manner is strictly follow
ing the rule that a fguratiye meaning
may not be accepted till the possibili-
ty Of the literal is exhausted. And
such a possibility is exhausted in these
cases. For in Ezekiel and in Isaiah it
is dead ones, those lying Slain, who
move and speak; literally, that were
impossible; therefore, it is figurative
The same is in the case in Luke; dead
ones in hades, in the grave, converse;
then that is likewise necessarily fgur-
ative. Acts 2:27. Thou wiltnot leave
my soul in hades the grave, E. V.
hell: neither wilt thou suffer thy no.
ly one to see corruption; quoted di-
rect from Psalm 1910, where sheol is
in the Heb. for hades in Acts. 'Leav-
ing in the grave corresponds to see
ing corruption;' what the latter clause
means we learn from Acts 1868
For David. after he had served his
own generation by the will Of God,
fell on sleep, and was laid unto his
fathers, and saw corruption; but he,
whom God raised again, saw no cor
ruption,' because his soul was not left
in the grave Rev. 1:18 I have the
keys of hades and of death (E. V.
hell,) Rev 6:S "A pale horse, and
his name that sat on him. was Death,
and Hades the grave personifed, q.
V. hell followed after.
Rev, 20:13. Death and hades de-
livered up the dead mot the living
who were in them Hades here is
plainly the grave; for what hades de-
livered up was the same that, in the
verse, the sea delivered up, tous mex
rous, the dead ones, who were in them.
Our translators use hell in the text,
the grave IN the margin. But in the
next verse they omit this important
marginal correction; Death and Hades
the grave, e. V. hell: is cast into it
self; was cast into the lake Of fire.
thus symbolizing the end of death.
and of the state of death, for any of
the living ones. 1t is the fulflllment
of the prophecy Of Hosea 1874: %
death, | will be thy plague; O grave,
| will be thy Instruction. in which
the Heb. sheol, grave. is in Septuagint
Cir hades. 1 Cor 1856. Here, as else
where, in both Testaments, death and
the grave are associated and persona
fed The whole line of argument in
that chapter, is so evidently upon a
resurrection. or restoration to life,
from the grave, that our translators
could not venture here to render hades
hell. Thus, they were forced to
correct rendering: % death, where is
thy sting? 0 grave hades, where is
thy victory?' Yet, as if it gave some
relief under this pressure, they arbi-
trarily insert their favorite rendering
hell in the margin. But the repug-
nance they here manifest lard in Rev.
20:13) to the more natural meaning so
evidently manlfests the bias of our
translators, that it doublY strength
ems our claim that the grave is the
correct rendering of hades We may
be sure they would never have accept
ed rendering so opposed to their
chosen rendering elsewhere, could
they have resisted 1t. SO we have their
reluctant testimony that the proof
that the Apostle used hades il the
sense Of the grave, is too strong to be
disregarded. We find then. on inves-
tigation, that Bible usage declares
that sheol or hades, the place Of the
dead, is the grave And if the dead
are in the grave, they are not in heav-
en- and hell, nor in the pagan Elysium
and Tartarus. The intermediate state
is not one Of conscious existence, but
of death. Instead Of being alive and
conscious, the dead are simply dead.
We must look to a resurrection f u
future life. IF there is no rysurvec-
ton there is no future life. There is
no work, nor device, nor knowledge.
nor wisdom III the grave Heb. sheol,
whittier thou goest.' The correctness
of the rendering, which we give from
the original, and which differs from
those given i'll our English version,
may be verified by amy Hebrew or
Greek scholars"
The above extract seems very con-
elusive as to what and where hades is.
The writer has proved his position by
taking Bible examples of the usage of
hadcs. That is the way to get the
Bible meaning and that is what we