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they render it the grave . Who would suppose that it is the same Greek word which is so variously rendered ? and what confusion and difficulty does such rendering occasion ? Let us now see what
sense the two first of these renderings will make , as applied to other passages . 1 Cor . xv . 5 b . O death , where is thy sting ? O death s where i $ thy victory ? or , O unseen statey where is tby vie *
tory ? Rev , vi . 8 * Behold , a pale horse ; and his name who sat thereon was deathj and death followed him ; or , the unseen state followed him . In two of the passages where they retain the word hades 9 they say in the notes , u unseen world , the unseen state , " thus explaining that which is obscure , by that which is no less so . The word hades is the
name of a place , called in the Old Testament , C ( the house ap . pointed for all living ; ' * the name of which place in English is the grave , by which the term hades ought always to have been rendered , and not by the meaning of the word , br the reason why the grave is so denominated . The rich man / died , and was buried ^ and iiM-he grave , ( where he was , and not in some unseen state where he was not , ) he lift up his eyes being in torments . Nor is there
any difficulty in this rendering ^ tvhen we consider , that , in figurative and parabolical language , the Scriptures attribute speech and action , not only to the dead , but even to those things which never were the subjects of animated
existence . See [ saiah xiv . 8—20 . and Job , xxviii . 14 , 22 . When it is said , Ci Lazarus died , and was carried by angels
# Poli Synopsis in loc .
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into Abraham ' s bosom , ** the allusion is not ( says Capellus *) to the custom of one person reclining on the bosom of another , as John on the bosom of Jesus at
supper , ( as the authors of the Improved Version make it , ) but to that of children resting or sleeping in the lap or bosom of their parents . And where should thfc pious Jew rest , when he dies but in the bosom of Abraham ^ the father of the faithful ? This
is agreeable to the language of the Old Testament , which represents the kings of Israel as sleeping with their fathers , which expression , Dr . Priestley observes , is used only of their good , and not of their
wicked kings : and it is also agreeable tb the language of the New Testament , which represents departed saints as sleeping in Je $ us and resting from th&ii ' labours . - ^
Proper names oueat 3 mtS ^ k , A - $ rendered according ^^ pfjp ^ lly * mology , exeepting ^ l ^^ fj ^ ere ji a direct allusion 1 : 0 t&eir ifteaiiing ; as in the words of our toHj to
Peter Mat . xvi . 18- stud I say unto thee , thotr art a fotici (^ thy name import ^ , ) and upon this rock I will build my church ; but who would be so absurd , ( because the word Peter means a
rock , ) as to render Acts iii . 1 # u Now a rock and John went up together into the temple at the
hour of prayer ? ' Nor is it less absurd ^ as I conceive , to render hades the unseen state or world , instead of the grave , of which in the original it is the proper name , because the word means unseen .
1 am , Sir , Your constant reader , J . MARSOM ,
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Mr . Marsoni on the Word HadesS * 136
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/31/
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