An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna; All Translated Hell, in the Common English Version (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1832. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... punishment, to mean endless punishment in a future state, for they contained no such information. Those who contend, the Jews so understood our Lord, are bound to inform us how they came by this information, seeing it was not found in their Scriptures. Who taught them this doctrine'? Was it from heaven or of men ? These are the questions at issue. To assume that Gehenna means a place of endless punishment, will not satisfy candid enquirers after truth. And to refer them to Rabinieal authority for this sense of Gehenna, isplainly admitting, it cannot be supported by a fair appeal to the Bible. We have some additional facts to produce, to show, that Gehenna in the New Testament, does not designate a place of endless misery to the wicked. But these will be more appropriately introduced, after we have considered; all the texts in the New Testament where Gehenna occurs. SECTION III. ALL THE TEXTS, IN WHICH GEHENNA OCCURS, CONSIDERED. The term Gehenna in the New Testament, designates punishment as all admit, but the question is-- what is the nature of that punishment ? Does it express a. place of endless punishment, as Dr. Campbell and others assert ? Or, is it used there as a source of imagery, to describe God's judgments on the Jewish nation, in the destruction of their city and temple? Some indeed have alleged, that Gehenna in the New Testament might refer, to--"that dreadful doom of being burned alive in the valley of Hinnom." But this is far from being probable, for burning alive in the valley of Hinnom, was not a Roman punishment; and in our Lord's day, the Jews had not the power to put any man legally to death, by any mode of punishment whatever. Burning alive in the valley of Hinnom was unknown among the Jews. To this horrid practice then, I think our...