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1 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Searcher56 | 171732 | ||
Word Study ... Sheol, Gehenna, Tartaroo, Hades ... God's day to you, winningside, No problem. It is my fault for not understanding. The English word hell in the Bible depends on the translation. There is one Hebrew word and three Greek words. In KJV, we see hell in Isaiah 5:14 - Sheol (Strong's 07585). NIV says grave. - translated grave 31 times, hell 31, pit 3. NAS says Sheol each time. - it is from Shaal (Strong's 07592) which means to ask, enquire, borrow, beg Matthew 10:28 usually has the word hell, which is Gehenna (Strong's 1067) in the Greek. - This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction. - It is from two Hebrew words -- Gay' (Strong's 01516) valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge -- Hinnom (Strong's 02011) which may be the same valley and means lamentation The KJV has hell in 2 Peter 2:4, which is Tartaroo (Strong's 5020) - The ancient Greeks named it for the dark subterranean region, the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds. It is like the Gehenna of the Jews. Then there is this passage (Rev 20:13-14), where we see the word hell in the KJV and Hades in the NAS and NIV. It is the word Hades (Strong's 86). - It is from the negative form of Eido (Strong's 1492) to see. Notice that death and hell was cast into the "Lake of Fire" A few links to consider http://www.thewordsofeternallife.com/hell.html http://what-the-hell-is-hell.com/HellStudy/HellCharts.htm http://ecclesia.org/truth/hell.html ... the latter even breaks down the number of times hell is used. For me hell is the place where one is separated from God forever. Searcher |
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2 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | heman | 233838 | ||
HELL. This is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render the Hebrew Sheol, or:"aidhs, and once Uanatos, 2 Sam. xxii. 6: Inferi or Inferna, or sometimes Mors). We say unfortunately, because although, as St. Augustine truly asserts, Sheol,with its equivalents Inferi and Hades, are never used in a good sense (De Gen. ad Lit. xii. 33), yet the English word Hell is mixed up with numberless associations entirely foreign to the minds of the ancient Hebrews. It perhaps have been better to retain the Hebrew word Sheol, or else render it always by " the grave " or " the pit." Ewald accepts Luther's word Holle; even Unterwelt, (the underworld, place of the dead) DR. WILLIAM SMITH'S DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE; Page 1038 In the parables of The Tares and The Drag Net, especially in the former, we are warned that in the future history of the kingdom there will appear a revolting and unnatural mixture of good and bad men, Christians and anti Christians, The evil are to resemble the good as "tares" (zezavia,bearded darnel) resemble wheat, the resemblance being so close that till the plants reach the ear they cannot easily be distinguished. (Mat 13:28 And he saith to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Wilt thou, then, that having gone away we may gather it up? YLT) They are in the kingdom and bear the Christian name. But they are not the better on account of this external similitude, but rather the worse ; counterfeit citizens of the kingdom, children of darkness wearing the guise of children of the light, wolves in sheep's clothing, Christians in name, only Of course the impulse of faithful servants is at once to get rid of the intruders: " Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up ?" " Out with the heretics "has been the watchword of nearly all faithful men ; and the result is, that instead of one Church in the world an approximate realization of the divine kingdom, there are hundreds of Churches, each, in theory at least, justifying its own separate existence by accusing all the rest of being tares. This consummation might be reached in either of two ways : either by all men being transformed into genuine sons of the kingdom, or by a judicial separation between Genuine and counterfeit,' between friends and foes. In the recorded sayings of Christ relative to this subject, purity is represented as being reached by separation. So in the parable of The Tares: Let both grow together until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather the wheat into my barn; and in its interpretation : As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and.." Whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven..But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness. (Mat 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked) The everlasting fire does not necessarily imply perpetual existence of the individual. The furnace in the parable of the Tares consumes the tares as waste. From the point of view of that parable, the wicked are the waste of the moral world, and they are cast into the consuming fire, not so much to punish them, as to get rid of them. How far the category of waste can be properly applied to human souls is a question of the same sort as that which ask*, Can a being endowed with freewill fitly be compared to clay in the hands of a potter? BRUCE, The Kingdom of Heaven |
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