Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

the disciples might impetuously have
been willing to destroy the earthly life
of the Samaritans, the Heavenly Fa-
Their, of still more demoniacal dispo-
sition, would treat practically all man
kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to all eternity
to perpetuate the sufferings of His
earthly creatures, which His own Word
declares were born in sin, shapen 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?
-"Gehenns"-HeII.
AS we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated hell, from
Genesis to Malachi. is sheol. which is
indiscriminately translated Craze, pit
and he'll in our Common Version of
the English Bible-the greater number
of times grGre-its proper translation.
It's Greek equivalent in the New Tesla
we HIVE Sccl1, ID fCdGCS. mA1Cu
likewise is indiscriminately translated
Grare and hell. but should always be
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 sheOP'-tO which all,
both good and bad, go at death, and
where they remain until the resurrec-
ton. In the New Testament the word
tartarus occurs once only and is mis-
translated hell, whereas it should be
rendered our ed3tb'S atmosphere. It has
no reference to humanity in any way,
but to the fallen angels. The Apostle
says that as a punishment God cast
them down 10 tdrtaruS" 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 hell in our
common English Bible. This word in
the Greek is gehennG. 1t occurs bat
twelve times, rs follows Matthew ",
%, %, 80; X, IS; xviii, 8; xiii 10, So;
Mark tx, 43, 45, At; Luke xii. 5; James
iii, 6. One of the occurrences is in con-
nection with our text today. The ques-
ton is, To what does this word gehennG
refer? Is it name for Purgatory?
Or a name for a still worse place Of
amending torture, as our Protestant
cTeeds declare? We answer, No. 1t
is a figure of speech used to symbolic
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 QI Thessalonians i, 8; III Pc
ter ii, 12). This is very plainly stated in
Revelation Xxx, II, where OF this "lake
of fire" it is declared, this is the Sec
ond Death"
The Valley. of f1innom-Tophet.
The Greek word geheltnG is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Ge-hinnOnl,
which means 1.-The valley of Hin
nom." This valley is repeatedly men
toned in the Bible. 1t was owned by
a family named Hinnom. The first
reference to it is in Joshua XIV, s.
Looking at 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 ALLEY
of the heather god, MOloch, made of
brass, and hollow, was erected. 1t
was so constructed that the chair,
which was a part OF the image, con-
stituted a furnace fred from the rear,
and the head of the image was the
top of fue.
The image held out its arms as
though to receive something and,
heated red hot by the fire, was a re-
ceptacle in which deluded Israelites
placed their children as sacrifices,
while trumpets were blown, drums
beaten and the people shouted, sitting
the cries of the tortured infants Oh
Kings xiii, 10). When the good King
Josiah came to the throne all this idol
airy was abolished and the proper
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 a valley of abomination.
1t was used as dumping Place for
the filth of Jerusalem. Dead dos and
dead cats were thrown there, and 1t
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 filed
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
plete destruction. In the bottom of
the valley fires were kindled for the
VI Tie waste uCDA1S, Slllo
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 gehennG of our Lords
day. He uses it in a fgurative or
pictorial sense as illustrating the Sec
ond Death, which will be the portion
of all wilful sinners. He used it also
symbolically. in connection with other
symbols, in the book of Revelation,
where as already seen He explains it
to mean the Second DEATH
The worms Of that valley were no
more immortal than any other worms
or maggots and the fires enkindled
there are not burning now. This ex-
preston, "Where their worm dieth not
and the fire is not quenched," merely
signifies that the destruction of the