The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-07-21

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Our second point Is Ihe WoTds .
used in ne Scripture % designate thc I
place Of future pumshncnt God has
interposed the appalling death penalty
to Keep men from SHINING, and his
legislation in our behalf appeals 70
Tue deepest interests Of mankind and
moves upon the most sacred feelings
of The heart The penalty Of death
IS he greatest barrier that could be
raised against temptation, and God
keeps this before us ali the time, say
inc. "Tho soul that sinneth L shall
lie; and yet he cries with all the
fervor 81 an infinite companion
aTurn ye, turn sc, from your evil
ways, for why, viii ye die" TO escape
the penalty and avoid hell, many have
sought 10 destroy the popular idea
OF hell; and to effect this they have
criticized the original words in which
this doctrine Is set forth. We must
meet these criticisms, and Tie easiest
way Is to look closely at the words
Tartarus, a word used by the
Romans to designate hell, in used
once, and only once in the New Tes
lament, is translated "hel Hades
Is on important word I occurs
eleven tunes 10 She Greek aud IS trans
lated "helr' ten times aud grave"
once. Ia Greek Il means the unseen
world-the place Of departed spirits
and does not refer TO character or
condition. It refers TO the soul in a
/ disembodied state, and its only appli.
cation Is to the state Of the dead be-
tween death and the resurrection.
Mark YOU, il does not express CHAR
acter or condition and Is therefore a
word which refers simply to the state
ofthe soluble Il righteous or wicked
between the death Of the body and
| the resurrection They may be happy
| or miserable ana yet be in Hades just
as you and ! may be in this house
with different mental and moral feel
ings.
We comenow to the word GchenRd.
| Il occurs twelve times in the Greek,
and is translated he'll every time.
! Tic word literally means "Valley OF
Human" which was near Jerusalem.
This valley was the place in which the
Canaanites, and afterwards the Is
raelites, made their children pass
through the fire unto the idol Moloch.
When King Josiah destroyed this
idolatrous worship he polluted this
valley and made it the receptacle OF
the 9th Of the whole city. II became
the most filthy place in the world and
its name-GeheRnd--was q synonym
for all that was opposed to God and
very naturally came into current use
to express the Jewish idea Of future
punishment This punishment was
Regarded as a "hanishmont from the
4 presence OF God" and was more
properly expressed by GeheRna than
any other wordin the Greek language.
| This was the sense in which Christ
used the word To say that it can
not refer TO the invisible world be-
cause it originally meant something
visible is pathological stupidity OF
moral lunacy II proves that You do
not know the laws Of language or
that you are not willing 10 see the
truth when it is plain. The invisible
is always represented by words made
from the visible-Were il not 60 We
could not speak Of the invisible
Take the word paradise" as an illus
tration Of what VIC mean. This word
originally meant in Persia a park or
pleasure ground well watercd and
stocked with animals for the chase.
I But it did not mean that ia the days
Of Christ When Hesaid to the thief /:
l"To-day shalt thou be with Ne in
Paradise lie did not moan that they
would enter one Of those gardens in
/ Persia So when Christ speaks OF de
suoylng both soul and body in
( aEnENNA he does not mean III the
valley OF CINEMA which Is near
jerusalem Here is the conclusion
which We have reached in reference
% The meaning Of these words /.
uAprs in It's striotest sense applies
to the state Of the soul between death
ard The resurrection hut never beyond
HAT event, TARTARus is another
word used to refer to part OF HADEs
the prison house Of the fallen
angels HADEs is the comprehen-
sive word covering al ground be-
tween death and the Judgment.
GEHENEA to a period beyond the
Judgment and is correctly rendered
"hell" The wicked souls will not
go into GEHENNA until the time when
God shall say "Depart from me We
cursed" We notice that the Revised
Testament has HADEs where II occurs
in the Greek, but has hell for GRHENNA
every time-this is correct. Some
men have asserted on our street
that hell is left out Of the Revised
Testament. We have this to say
They either had read The New Testa.
ment or they had not II they had
read ID they asserted what they knew
90 be false. Il they had not read It,
hey did not know that bell was taken
out and and bad no right to asfest
what they did not q be true; there
fore 10 either eases they did wrong
70 assert that bell was taken out
Il is still there as terrible as il was
Two thousand years ago.
stability Of the Gospel.