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[1] {hell}
Gr. \\hades\\, "the unseen world," is revealed as the place of departed
human spirits between death and resurrection. The word occurs,
# Mt 11:23 16:18 Lu 10:15 Ac 2:27,31 Re 1:18 6:8 20:13,14
and is the equivalent of the O.T. sheol
» See Note "Hab 2:5"
The Septuagint invariably renders sheol by \\hades\\.
Summary: (1) Hades before the ascension of Christ. The passages in which
the word occurs make it clear that hades was formerly in two divisions,
the abodes respectively of the saved and of the lost. The former was
called "paradise" and "Abraham's bosom." Both designations were
Talmudic, but adopted by Christ in
# Lu 16:22 23:43
The blessed dead were with Abraham, they were conscious and were
"comforted"
# Lu 16:25
The believing malefactor was to be, that day, with Christ in "paradise."
The lost were separated from the saved by a "great gulf fixed"
# Lu 16:26
The representative man of the lost who are now in hades is the
rich man of
# Lu 16:19-31
He was alive, conscious, in the full exercise of his faculties,
memory, etc., and in torment.
(2) Hades since the ascension of Christ. So far as the unsaved dead are
concerned, no change of their place or condition is revealed in
Scripture. At the judgment of the great white throne, hades will give them
up, they will be judged, and will pass into the lake of fire
# Re 20:13,14
But a change has taken place which affects paradise. Paul
was "caught up to the third heaven. . .into paradise"
# 2Co 12:1-4
Paradise, therefore, is now in the immediate presence of God. It is
believed that
# Eph 4:8-10
indicates the time of the change. "When he ascended up on high he led
a multitude of captives." It is immediately added that He had
previously "descended first into the lower parts of the
earth," i.e. the paradise division of Hades. During the present
church-age the saved who died are "absent from the body, at home with the
Lord." The wicked dead in hades, and the righteous dead "at home with
the Lord," alike await the resurrection
# Job 19:25 1Co 15:52
» See Note "Mt 5:22"