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,
Charlestown Mass.

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Introduction,

CHAPTER I.

SECT. I. All the passages of Scripture considered, in

which Sheol occurs, translated pit, grave,

and hell, in the common version,

All the passages in which Hades occurs, con-

șidered, rendered grave, and hell, in the

common version,

2 Peter ii. 4, in which Tartarus occurs, con-

sidered, rendered hell in the common ver-

sion,

SECT. II.

SECT. III.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER II.

Gehenna, uniformly translated hell in the New Testa-

ment, considered, as a place of eternal pun-

ishment,

Remarks on Dr. Campbell's views of Gehenna,

A number of facts stated, showing that Ge-

henna was not used by the New Testament

writers, to express a place of endless misery,

All the passages in which Gehenna occurs,

considered,

SECT. I.

SECT. II.

SECT. III.

SECT. IV.

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SECT. V.

Additional facts stated, proving that Gehenna

was not used by the sacred writers, to ex-

press a place of endless misery,

The argument derived from the Targums, and

other Jewish writings, that Gehenna means

a place of endless misery, considered,

SECT. VI. Objections considered,

SECT. VII. Concluding remarks,

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