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NASB | Ephesians 4:9 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 4:9 (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had previously descended [from the heights of heaven] into the lower parts of the earth? |
Subject: Jesus decended into hell? |
Bible Note: Hi Kalos, This article you quoted seems to demonstrate the difficulty people have in talking about this subject. Here, they have used "hell" refering to both the temporary holding area and the final destination. The majority of Bibles that I use translate "sheol" and "hades" as hell. Many also translate "gehenna" as hell. And in today's vernacular, when people say "hell", they generally mean the Lake of Fire. Of the 31 times Hell is found in the Old Testament of the King James Bible, each is translated from Sheol. Of the 23 times hell appears in the New Testament of the King James Bible, 12 times it is traslated from Gehenna, 10 from Hades, and 1 from Tartarus. Sheol and Hades are both the temporary holding place, with two "compartments", the Side of Comfort and the Side of Torment. Gehenna (from the Hinnon Valley, next to Jerusalem, a place of perpetual burning, then of trash, previously idolatrous bonfires) is idiomatic of the Lake of Fire, the final destination of the lost. Without meaning any disrespect, I think that the translators may have done better by using a different word for Gehenna. The LITV helps somewhat by translating Gehenna as "the fires of hell". So when people say that Jesus went to the Side of Comfort of Sheol/Hades, they are correct. When people say that Jesus went to the Side of Torment, or to the Lake of Fire, there is nothing in Scripture that would even remotely indicate that to be true, and so we do not believe it. By the way, I know you already know these things. I write for the benefit of others. God bless you my brother! Love in Christ, Mark |