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. CHARLESTOWN, (Ms.) PRINTED BY GEORGE DAVIDSON. BT ·B2 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 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 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching, historical and other prints.' 33 JOHN W. DAVIS, 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- SECT. 111. 2 Peter ii. 4. in which Tartarus occurs, consider- Gehenna, uniformly translated hell, in the New Testament, considered as a place of eternal punishment SECT. 1. Remarks on Dr. Campbell's views of Gehenna SECT. II. 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 occurs, consid- SECT. IV. Additional facts stated, proving that Gehenna was not used by the sacred writers to express a place SECT. V. The argument arising from the Apocrypha and Targums, in favour of endless misery in Gehenna |