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situation He woiild ^ after exertions aBd fears , he naturally exhausted , and was most likely placed in the hold or , bottom of the vessel , where he tx > ntiaued in safety for three days and three nights , u e . until the storm subsided , which would probably be about thirty-six hours , one whole day , and part of two others , when he was safely landed by this vessel , whose distinguishing name , mark , or head , was a whale , ? Thjus we have ships called after the name of fishes , Dolphin ,
the Nautulus , the Sea-horse , &c . , At ail events , Jonab could not mean to say , that he had been in the belly , or the bottom of such a Hell as our Calvinist brethren advocate ; nor , that from thence he prayed to God . Jonah's Hell consisted of salt water , waves running mountains high r not of fire and brimstone .
It is related of Hercules , that Neptune sent a sea-dog against him , that the dog swallowed him , and that he remained in the dog ' s belly uninjured for three days . This , perhaps , is only another edition of the preservation of Jonah by the dog . In the same point of view we may consider the circumstance which is related
of Arion , the musician and poet of Lesbos , who , in escaping from the murderous hands of some mariners , jumped from the vessel where he was , upon the back of a dolphin that was close by it , which , having been charmed by his music , carried him safe on shore . " —Pp . 495—497 .
The Lecturer considers , Hades to be synonymous with Skeol , but he does not satisfactorily explain our Lord ' s using this term in the parable of Dives and Lazarus , to signify a place of torment . He seems to us to be fettered in this part of his inquiry by Ids system as a materialist , which however , he frankly avows , asserting in the most unqualified manner , ( pp . 530 , 536 / 566 , ) that " neither Moses nor the prophets were authorized to
make any communications respecting futurity TV We cannot subscribe to tins hypothesis , and if we could , ( so differently are kuinan minds constituted , ) we doubt whether we should be able to admit that the Old Testament contains a Divine Revelation . On Gehenna rendered Hell in the New Testament , Mr . Scott says , u This is not a Greek word , but is ? ' * See Fragments to Calmet ' s Dictionary , Ncu cxliv . p . 103 /*
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compounded of y ^ ( g& * land , aodiyyo ^ t , hinnom , a proper name ; in order to make it correspond as nearly as possible to the Hebrew for the vafiey of Hiimdm % called * by Joshua , ( chap , xv . 6 , ) * * Jte * rtifl@f of the son of Hinnom , ' -who assigns its Situation near Jerusalem , to- the sontfe east . It was the place where the Idolatrous 1
Jews anciently celebratedthe hbrrHjie rite of burning their children in sacrifice to Moloch , an idol of the Ammonites r a fire was continually kept there for this and other idolatrous * purposes . To ptit a stop to such an unnatural and detestable practice , Josiah , about six hundred years
before Christ , defiled or profaned the place , by filling it with human bones , as we learn from 3 Kings x-xiii . 10 *— -14 . It was afterwards the custom to * carry out the dead carcases of animals , the filth and offal of the city , into this valley ; in order to consume this nauseous
assemblage a fire was kept continually burning . Jeremiah informs us , ( chap . vii . 32 , 33 , ) that it became also the cduwnon buryirigplace * for the poor inhabitants of Jerusalem , who could not afford the expense' of tombs or of embalming . Here alst > were burned the bodies of those criminals who
Were denied burial : and , indeed , some are said to have been there burned aHve .-f-The Pharisees , whose opinions eoncerningr the state of the dead were chiefly adopted from the Heathens , and certainly not from Moses and the prophets , had
been long accustomed to designate the future punishment of those whom they considered to be wicked , by the name of this horrible place : horrible it really was , whether we consider the shocking inhumanity in which the first fire originated , or the loathsome disgustfulness which occasioned the second . " - —Pp . 566 , 567 .
la quoting and explaining Matt . x . 28 , ( Fear not them which kill the body , and are not able to kill the soul ; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hetty ) and the parallel place , lAike
xii . 4 , b , the Lecturer does not attempt to reconcile his previously avowed materialism to these seemingly strong assertions of a substance that survives the * body : his comment is in our view unsatisfactory , though
. ? *< That the Valley of Gehinnom was a place of sepulture * may be proved by reference to various authorities , //* wM » , Jewish and Christian . Clarke ' s Travels , VaL IV . p < 353 , note / 9 t " See JUw * h s Isaiah , notes . "
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Review ^* - ~ Scou ' s Lecture * on the- DtuiL JSgSr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/45/
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