AN INQUIRY INTO THE SCRIPTURAL IMPORT OF THE WORDS SHEOL, HADES, TARTARUS, AND GEHENNA: ALL TRANSLATED HELL, IN THE COMMON ENGLISH VERSION. BY WALTER BALFOUR. SECOND EDITIOM. CHARLESTOWN, (Ms.) PRINTED BY GEORGE DAVIDSON. BT 837 Ba 18258 District of Massachusetts, to wit : BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirtieth day of March, A.D. 1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, WALTER BALFOUR, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit : “An Inquiry into the scriptural import of the words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna: all translated Hell, in the common English version. By Walter Balfour. Second edition." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;' and also to an act entitled “ an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the en-couragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching, historical and other prints.'' JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. 18256 V Szct, v. The argument arising from the Apocrypha and CONTENTS. SECT. 1. All the passages of Scripture considered, in which Sheol occurs, translated pit, grave, and hell, in the Sect. 11. All the passages in which Hades occurs, consider- ed, rendered grave and hell in the common version 47 Sect. Ill. 2 Peter ii. 4. in which Tartarus occurs, consider- ed, rendered hell, in the common version Gebeona, unifornny translated bell, in the New Testament, 92 Sect. I. Remarks on Dr. Campbell's views of Gehenna SECT. 11. A number of facts stated, showing that Gehenna was not used by the New Testament writers to express a place of endless misery SECT. 111. All the passages in which Gehenna occars, consid- SECT. 16. Additional facts stated, proving that Gebenna was not used by the sacred writers to express a place District of Massachusetts, to wit : BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirtieth day of March, A.D. 1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, WALTER BALFOUR, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit : "An Inquiry into the scriptural import of the words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenda : all translated Hell, in the common English version. By Walter Balfour. Second edition.” In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, en- titled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled 'an act for the en. couragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, 10 the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching, historical and other prints.'” L6121 / 1-89 INTRODUCTION. THE simple object of the author, in this Inquiry, is, to examine the foundation on which the doctrine of endless misery is built. This doctrine rests on the fact or the falsehood that a place called hell, in a future state, is prepared for the punishment of the wicked. In speaking, and preaching, and writing on the subject, this is always presumed as true. It is taken for granted as indisputable. Most Universalists have conceded this to their opponents, and have contended not against the existence of such a place of misery, but against the endless duration of its punishment. All the principal writers on both sides of this question proceed on this ground, that there is a place of future punishment, and that the name of it is hell. Winchester, Murray, Chauncey, Huntingdon and others, all admit that hell is a place of future punishment. Edwards, Strong, and others who opposed them, had no occasion to prove this, but only to show that it was to be endless in its duration. This Inquiry is princi |