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| the disciples might impetuously have
been willing to destroy the earthly life
| OF the Samaritans. the Heavenly Fa-
Their; Of stih more demoniacal dlspo-
sition, would treat practically all man.
kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to all eternity
70 perpetuate the sufferings Of His
| earthly creatures which His own Word
declares were born In sin, sbapen in
iniQuity, In sin did their mothers con
ceive them earthly creatures. too.
whose environment was unfavorable
and whose Adversary, the Devil. God
neither destroyed nor bound?
"cs'hinnom"-"Geh a"--Heli.
AS we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated hell. from
Genesis to Malachi. is sheol. which is
Unfortunately translated grare. pit
| and he'll in our Common Version of
the English Bible-the greater number
Of times 0rhre-its proper translation
It's Greek equivalent in the New Tesla
ment, we have seen. is ha6es. which
likewise is indiscriminately translated
craze and hell. but should always he
rendered grare. We repeat again that
no scholar in the world will claim that
there is the slightest thought OF life
or suffering or joy connected with these
words.
The Scriptures distinctly declare that
there is neither wisdom. nor device,
nor knowledge in she0T'--to which all.
both good and bad, go at death. and
where they remain until the reSurrec-
ton In the New Testament the word
tartQyWs occurs once only and is mis-
translated hell. whereas it should be
rendered our eQifh's atmosphere 1t has
no reference to humanity in any way,
but to the fallen angels. The Apostle
says that as punishment God cast
them down to tartarnS'' and they are
reserved in chains of darkness until
the judgment of the great Day"
But today we will examine the fourth
and last word translated he'll in our
common English Bible. This word in
the Greek is gehenRd Ii occurs bHt
twelve times, rs follows: Matthew V,
%. 20. so; x, 2S; xviii. 8; xiii Is. SO:
Mark tx, 43, 10. A.: Luke xii. ): James
iii. 6. One Of the occurrences is in con.
nection with our text today The cues
ton is. To what does this word geheRad
refer? Is it name for Purgatory?
Or a name for still worse place Of
unending torture, as our Protestant
creedS declare? We answer. No 1t
is figure Of speech used to symbolic
the Second Death--the death from
which there will be no resurrection,
no resuscitation-the everlasting de-
struction mentioned by st. Paul. and
of which st. Peter says that they
which experience it perish like the
brute beast Oh ThessalOnians /, 9: ii Pc
ter ii, 12). This is very plainly stated in
Revelation Xxx. II, where of this flake
of fire. it is declared. this is the Sec
ond Death"
Tho Valley Of Hinnom--Tophet.
The Greek word Oehcnna is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Gc-hinaOnl,
which means '.'rlle valley of Hin
nom" This valley is repeatedly men
toned in the bible. 1t was owned by
family named Hlnnom. The first
reference to il is in Joshua Ky. 8.
Looking ut any Bible map of the city
Of Jerusalem, the valley will be seen
to the southwest Of the city wall. At
time when the Israelites became
sadly involved in idolatry, this valley
was used as a sacred place. An imuge
of the heather god. Moloch, made OF
brass. aud hollow, was erected 1t
was so constructed that the chair.
which was part Of the image, con
stituted furnace fred from the rear.
and the head Of the image was the
top Of fue.
The image held out it's arms as
though to receive something and,
heated red hot by the fire, was re-
ceptacle in which deluded lsraelites
placed their children as sacrifices.
while trumpets were blown. drums
beaten and the people shouted, sitting
the cries Of the tortured infants Qi
Kings xiii, lO). When the good King
Josiah came 10 the throne all this idol
dIS was dDOtiSuCu Tue ptOpcA
worship of God in the temple was re-
sumed. Then. lest, the people should
ever again resort TO such atrocious
customs. the valley was desecrated.
1t became valley of abomination
1t was used as dumping place for
the 9Th Of jerusalem. Dead dogs and
dead cats were thrown there. and it
is claimed that some of the vile GRIM
inals. after execution. were thrown
therein instead Of being given burial
to typically Illustrate that there is no
future life for such obnoxious beings
that they will be refuse.
The valley Of Hinnom is now filled
up and an orchard grows there; but
originally it was quite deep. The car
casses of animals were thrown there
intended for destruction, the worms
feeding upon them. No one sought to
hinder the worms from making com.
p!ete destruction. In the bottom of
the valley fires were kindled for the
consumption of the waste debris. and
birthstone was added that the fumes
Of it might destroy any germs of dis
ease. No one thought of Quenching
that fire: it was one that was desired.
This was the gehenna Of our Lords
day. He uses IL in a fgurative OF