The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-17

tut1 WoNiu III uul NirV iN'f'H't WV
torture Of the poor srffercrs was e.
many pcrplcxlty. But patient
thouphtsulness along thcsc cruel and
devilish lines enabled somc TO formu
late the theory that the worms wou,G
he fiery ones. living in FIRE. delightnc
I'm fire--worms that would bore through
the incrustations and add still fur
ther to the horrible su1erings Of the
world OF mankind
Was This What icsu. moant7
Did the Great Teacher intend that
such conclusions should bc drawn
| from His language? And did He stop
short Of the description from reasons
of sympathy or modesty or shamci Is
this the general teaching OF Gods
Word or has great and terrible mis-
take been made? And have we mistnk
en- figure of speech and treated ltas
literal? We erred We misunderstood
The Great Teacher who rebuked His
| disciples. James and John. when they
desired 60 call fire from heaven upon
the City OF Samaria. because the peo-
pie thereof refused 10 sell them food
| for the NIaster-thc sympathetic One
who said TO them. eye know not what
manner Of spirit ye are Of; the Son Of
man came not 10 destroy mems lives.
but TO save them'-could that son of
man I'm any wise intend TO tell us that
our great Heavenly Father had less
Of the spirit Of love and Righteousness
than the two iD,petuous disciples?
Did Hc mean to intimate that vNiln
the Disciples might impetdodsly have
been willing to destroy the earthly life
of the Samaritans. the Heavenly Ia
thcr, of still more demonacal dispo-
sltion, would treat practically all man
Kind ten million times worse than that
and use Divine Power to all eternity
TO perpetuate the sunegings OF His
, earthly creatures. which His own Word
declares were born I'm sin. shapen in
lniquity, IN sin did their mothers con
selve them = earthly creatures, too.
whose environment was unfavorablc
and whose Adversary, the Devil. God
neither destroyed nor bound?
-"Gehenna"--Hol.
AS we have heretofore seen. the only
Hebrew word translated he'll. from
Genesis TO Malachi is ShcoI, which is
Unfortunately translated grdrc. pit
and he'll I'm our Common Version of
the English Bible-thc greater number
Of times grdre-.its proper translation.
It's Greek equivalent In the New Testa-
ment. we have seen. Is hddeS, which
Likewise is indlscriminately translated
0rarc and he'll. but should always be
rendered grdrc We repeat again that
~ scholar I'm the world will claim that
there Is the slightest thought Of life
DR. suffering or joy connected with these
words
The Scriptures distinctly declare that
'thcre is neither wisdom. nor device,
nor knowledge IN sheor'-to which all.
both good and bad go Mt denth, ard
where they remain until the resufrec-
ton. In the New Testament the word
tart0rus occurs once only and is mis-
translated he'll whereas 1t should be
rendered our cdrfh's atmosphere. II has
no reference to humanity in any way.
but TO the fallen angels. The Apostle
says that as n punishment God cast
them down TO tarta,Hs'' ard they nre
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 DchcHna It occurs but
twelve times, rs follows: Matthew ",
%, 20, 30; X. 2S; xylli o; XXili II, 80; !
Mark iy, 43, ~. AZ Luke xii. .; James
ill. g. One of the occurrences Is IN con
ncction with our text today The uucs-
tion Is. TO what does This word gchcAHa
refer? ls II name for Purgatory? ?
Or name for a still worse plncc OF
creeds declare? We answer. No. I'll
Is a figure Of speech used TO symbolic |
the Second Death--the death from
which there win be no resurrection. |
no resuscitation the everlasting de |
structlon mentioned by st. Paul, and |
Of which 81. Peter says that they |
which experience It perish like the
brute beRst Gtrhcssalonlans /, o; II Pc
ter II. 12j This is very plainly stated in
Revelation Xxx, II. where of this flake !
OF Gre' It IS declared. this is the Sec
Qnd Death"
Z Tho Valley Of Hinnom-Tophot.
The Greek word gehonHa is the syn
onym for the Hebrew word Gc-hiRaom,
whlch means "The valley of Hin
nom" This valley is repeatedly men
toned in the Bible. II was owned by |
a family named Hinnom. The first |
reference to II Is In Joshua XIV, &. |
Looking mt any Bible map of the city |
Of Jerusalem. the valley viii be seen |
to the southwest of the city wall. At |
a time when the Israeites became
sadly involved IN idolatry. this valley |
was used as sacred place. An image |
of the heathen god, Moloch. made of |
brass, and hollow, was erected. 1t
was so constructed that the chair.
which was part OF the image, con
stituted a furnace fired from the rear.
and the head of the image was the
top of hue.
The image held out its arms as
though to receive something and,
heated red hot by the fire, was a re-