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NASB | Matthew 25:41 ¶ "Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 25:41 ¶ "Then He will say to those on His left, 'Leave Me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels (demons); |
Bible Question: Did God create Hell? |
Bible Answer: Sheol, To translate this Hebrew term, the LXX. adopted the nearest Greek word. Hades, which by derivation signifies the invisible world. But the Greek word could not carry Greek notions into Hebrew theology. The unknown region into which the dying disappeared, was naturally and always invested with gloom to a sinful race. But the vague term was capable of becoming more or less definite according to the writer's thought. Most commonly it was simply the grave, as we use the phrase; sometimes the state of death in general; sometimes a dismal place opposed to heaven, e. g., Job xi. 8, Ps.cxxxix. 8, Am. iv. 2 In many instances it is with strict propriety translated "hell." Even in Acts ii. 27, 31, quoted from the O. T., Hades is the abode of the wicked dead. Even the righteous Hezekiah trembled lest, " when his eyes closed upon the cherubim and the mercy-seat," he should no longer "see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living." In the N. T. the word Hades (like Sheol) sometimes means merely "the grave" (Rev. xx. 13; Acts ii. 31; 1 Cor. xv. 55), or in general "the unseen world." It is in this sense that the creeds say of our Lord or, descendit ad inferos, or inferna, meaning " the state of the dead in general, without any restriction of happiness or misery" (Beveridge on Art. iii.), a doctrine certainly, though only virtually, expressed in Scripture (Eph. iv. 9; Acts ii. 25-31). (Dr Willaim Smith, The Bible Dictionary) |
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