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The disciples might impetuously have
been willing to destroy the earthly life
of the Samaritans, the Heavenly Fa-
thcr, of still more dcmoniacal disp0-
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?
"Ge'hinnom'-"Gehe
AS we have heretofore seen, the only
Hebrew word translated hell, from
Genesis to Malachi. Is sheol which is
indiscriminately translated 0raCe pit
and he'll in our Common Version Of
the English Bible--the greater number
OF times Drdre-its proper translation.
Its Greek equivalent in the New Testa-
ment, we have seen, is hGdes, which
likewise Is indiscriminately translated
0rare and hell, but should always be
rendered grave. We repeat again that
no scholar in the world win 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 she0r'-tO which all,
both good and bad, go at death, and
where they remain until the resurrec-
tion. In the New Testament the word
tdrtdvts occurs once only and is mis-
translated hell. whereas it should be
rendered our edrth's atmosphere. 1t has
no reference to humanity in any way,
but to the fallen angels. The Apostle
says that as a punishment God cast
them down to tartaruS" 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, as follows: Matthew V,
%, 20, 30; x, %; xviii, O.; xiii Is, 33;
DldIh IA, tDy NJ II lthhC ALI ~ bdhite
| If, g. One of the occurrences is In con-
nection with our text today. The ques-
| tlOn is, To what does this word gehenna
refer? Ia 1t name for Purgatory?
| Or q name for still worse place Of
unendlng torture, as our Protestant
creeds declare? We answer, No. 1t
Is a figure Of speech used to symbolic
h. fh.
which there will be no resurrection,
no resuscitntion-the everlasting de
Btructlon mentioned by st. Paul, and
| of which st. Peter says that they
which experience 1t perish like the
| brute beast 0I Thessalonians /, o; III Pc
| ter II, 12). This is very plainly stated in
Revelation XXX, Ia, where of this lake
of fire" it Is declared, "this is the Sec
| ond Death"
| The Valley of Hinnom-Tophet.
The Greek word Oohenna Is the syn
| onym for the Hebrew word Ge-hinn0n,
which means "The valley Of Hin
nom" This valley is repeatedly men
toned In the Bible. 1t was owned by
family named Hinnom. The first
reference to 1t Is III Joshua XIV, 3
Looking at any Bible map OF the city
of Jerusalem, the valley will be seen
to the southwest of the city wall. AZ
time when the Israelites became
sadly involved In idolatry, this valley
was used as sacred place. An image
of the heather god, Moloch, made ol
brass, and hollow, was erected. i
was 80 constructed that the chair
which was part of the image, con
stituted furnace fred from the rear
and the head of the image was th
top OF fiue
The image held out its arms a
though to receive something and
heated red hot by the fire, was a re
ceptacle In which deluded Israelite
placed their children as sacrifices
, while trumpets We're blown, drum
beaten and the people shouted, stiflip
the cries of the tortured infants Il
+, Kings xiii. l0). When the good Kin
=, Josiah came to the throne all this lido
;, airy was abolished and the prope
= worship OF God In the temple was II
:, sumed Then, lest the people shoul
, ever again resort to such atrociou
customs, the valley was desccratet
1t became valley of abominatiol
\, II was used as Il dumping place fc
. the filth OF Jerusalem. Dead dogs an
dead eats We're thrown there, and
IL claimed that some of the vile erin
:, inals, after execution, were throw
y therein instead of being given burial
:, to typicaily Illustrate that there Is
' future life for such obnoxious beings
. that they will be refuse.
>, The valley of lllnnom Is now file
:, up and an orchard grows there; b'
" originally 1t was quite deep. The Gu
casses of animals We're thrown the
intended for destruction, the worn
y feeding upon them. No one sought
u hinder the worms from making col
plete destruction. In the bottom
~ the valley fires were kindled for Il
consumption of the waste debris, III
birthstone was added that the fun
II of II might destroy any germs OF d.
n paAe No one thought of Quenchil