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Originally posted by okbmdYep , another one of those that have it all figured out , because it's in the bible . You somehow remind me of the taste of sour milk . Someone tells me 'yes it's good' when it is clear to me that it isn't .
Originally posted by okbmdNo , don't kid yourself you little jesus follower you ., you haven't refuted anything .
Originally posted by okbmdThe only thing you have accomplished is to remind me of how much I REALLY don't care to be associated with religious victims such as yourself .
Originally posted by okbmdGo back to sleep .
Originally posted by okbmd
...mary-jane, doobie, tree-worship ... Yea, I'm startin' to feel ya' now dude.
Originally posted by okbmdJust what part of sheol=grave ,sheol=unseen , sheol=pit , hell=conceal/cover , hell=Gehenna=Valley of Hinnom ... do you not understand ?
Originally posted by okbmdMe thinks maybe you should quit bogartin' and pass that on around your lil' circle of squirrels there buddy.
Originally posted by okbmdIt is pointless to talk to you , because you will never 'get it' . Your mind is a dumplin' already ., that is irreversable .
Originally posted by okbmdOut of all the posts here , you are the only one that exemplifies exactly what my point is in this thread . So , you have a wonderful life . I don't hate you for your beliefs , I don't want to change you , I don't hold it against you .
Originally posted by okbmdBelieve what you will , I have no problem with you on any personal level ., I have a problem with those of your leanings that go around bashing those of us who think with our own minds .
Originally posted by okbmdWouldn't hurt you none to get yourself a good biblical concordance and maybe a Greek Lexicon .
Originally posted by okbmdAnd please don't pray for me , it offends me . How would you like it if I told you I would work up a little majic for you ? Or cast a spell of blessing for you ?
Originally posted by okbmdCan you hear me now ?
Originally posted by edsinger
Originally posted by okbmd
Just what part of sheol=grave ,sheol=unseen , sheol=pit , hell=conceal/cover , hell=Gehenna=Valley of Hinnom ... do you not understand ?
Oh I get it, yet YOU don't seem to. In your descriptions you fail to address Tartarus, other than a quick jab, you don't address the abyss. You fail to answer the questions of others in which Christ describes "hell', you only dwell on your definition of such. You seem to forget the translations and difficulty of such and translating an idea.
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores , 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass , that the beggar died , and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died , and was buried ; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said , Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said , Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted , and thou art tormented . 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said , I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said , Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent . 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded , though one rose from the dead.
Originally posted by Neo Christian Mystic
Exactly where in the Catholic canon is Tartarus mentioned? Ohthought so. It belongs to Coptic Gnostic writings,
Originally posted by Mykahel
I must admit I was partially unaware of the things you were talking about regarding the testing verses the torment, but it does give some credit to the idea of a type of purgatory,
Originally posted by okbmd
Yep, chains of darkness , over and over and over ....
Cast them down to hell (tartarōsas). First aorist active participle of tartaroō, late word (from tartaros, old word in Homer, Pindar, lxx Job 40:15; 41:23, Philo, inscriptions, the dark and doleful abode of the wicked dead like the Gehenna of the Jews), found here alone save in a scholion on Homer. Tartaros occurs in Enoch 20:2 as the place of punishment of the fallen angels, while Gehenna is for apostate Jews.
Rudentibus inferni detractos in tartarum tradidit cruciandos, in judicium reservari, Greek: seirais zophou (some few copies, Greek: adou ) Greek: tartarosas, paredoken eis krisin teteremenous; other manuscripts, Greek: teroumenous. Greek: Tartaroo must signify cast into a place, called Greek: tartaros, derived from Greek: taratto, turbo. The Rhem. Testament hath, with ropes of hell drawn down; but the sense rather seems to be, delivered into chains, or into prison. Some would have Greek: tartarosas to signify, cast down into this region of the air. It is true divers of the ancient Fathers were of opinion, that devils are dispersed in the airy region, where they are punished and tormented; but these same Fathers do not deny, that there is in the inferior parts of the earth a place of torments for the devils and damned souls, into which (called also the abyss) the devils begged not to be sent and confined there. (Luke viii. 31.) This is the place called hell, tartarus, &c.
hell--Greek, "Tartarus": nowhere else in New Testament or the Septuagint: equivalent to the usual Greek, "Gehenna." Not inconsistent with 1Pe_5:8; for though their final doom is hell, yet for a time they are permitted to roam beyond it in "the darkness of this world." Slaves of Tartarus (called "the abyss," or "deep," Luk_8:31; "the bottomless pit," Rev_9:11) may also come upon earth. Step by step they are given to Tartarus, until at last they shall be wholly bound to it.
16tn Grk “casting them into Tartarus” or “holding them captive in Tartarus.” This verb, ταρταρόω (tartarow), occurs only here in the NT, but its meaning is clearly established in both Hellenistic and Jewish literature. “Tartarus [was] thought of by the Greeks as a subterranean place lower than Hades where divine punishment was meted out, and so regarded in Israelite apocalyptic as well” (BDAG 991 s.v.). Grammatically, it has been translated as an indicative because it is an attendant circumstance participle.
Cast them down to hell (tartarōsas). First aorist active participle of tartaroō, late word (from tartaros, old word in Homer, Pindar, lxx Job 40:15; 41:23, Philo, inscriptions, the dark and doleful abode of the wicked dead like the Gehenna of the Jews), found here alone save in a scholion on Homer. Tartaros occurs in Enoch 20:2 as the place of punishment of the fallen angels, while Gehenna is for apostate Jews.
"Hell" here is Tartarus. This is the prison of the fallen angels until the Great White Throne Judgment, from where they will be sent to eternal misery in the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:14), the final abode of the wicked dead, also called "hell." The Greek word is geenna, from which we get the name "Gehenna" (Matt. 5:22, 29, .30). The word hāidēs, translated "hell" (Matt. 16:18), means "the unseen" and refers to the unseen world of free moral intelligences, holy angels, fallen angels, departed saints, the unsaved who died, Satan, and the demons. The context speaks of the latter two in the unseen world who would destroy the Church if they could. For a full discussion of the three words, geenna, tartarōsas, and hāidēs, see the author's book, Treasures in the Greek New Testament, chapter 6, "Hell, Hades, and Tartarus." Here, Peter is speaking of that place in the unseen world where the fallen angels are imprisoned until the Great White Throne Judgment. The word tartarōsas is the Greek pagan name for the place of punishment of the evil. Strachan says: "In Homer, Hades is the place of confinement for dead men, and Tartarus is the name given to a murky abyss beneath Hades in which the sins of fallen immortals are punished. Hence 2 Peter uses this word in agreement with the Book of Enoch (where Tartarus is the place of punishment of fallen angels) and Greek mythology because he is speaking of fallen angels and not of men."
Peter says that God condemned the sinning angels to the lowest depths of hell. Literally the Greek says that God condemned the angels to Tartarus (tartaroun, ). Tartarus was not a Hebrew conception but Greek. In Greek mythology Tartarus was the lowest hell; it was as far beneath Hades as the heaven is high above the earth. In particular it was the place into which there had been cast the Titans who had rebelled against Zeus, the Father of gods and men.
The second word is that which speaks of the pits of darkness. Here there is a doubt. There are two Greek words, both rather uncommon, which are confused in this passage. One is siros or seiros which originally meant a great earthenware jar for the storing of grain. Then it came to mean the great underground pits in which grain was stored and which served as granaries. Siros has come into English via Provencal in the form of silo, which still describes the towers in which grain is stored. Still later the word went on to mean a pit in which a wolf or other wild animal was trapped. If we think that this is the word which Peter uses, and according to the best manuscripts it is, it will mean that the wicked angels were cast into great subterranean pits and kept there in darkness and in punishment. This well suits the idea of a Tartarus beneath the lowest depths of Hades.
But there is a very similar word seira (), which means a chain. This is the word which the King James Version translates when it speaks of chains of darkness (2Pet 2:4). The Greek manuscripts of Second Peter vary between seiroi (), pits, and seirai (), chains. But the better manuscripts have seiroi (), and pits o darkness makes better sense than chains of darkness; so we may take seiros () as right, and assume that here the King James Version is in error.
But cast them down to hell - Greek ταρταρώσας tartarōsas - “thrusting them down to Tartarus.” The word here used occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, though it is common in the Classical writers. It is a verb formed from Τάρταρος Tartaros, Tartarus, which in Greek mythology was the lower part, or abyss of Hades, ᾍδης Hadēs, where the shades of the wicked were supposed to be imprisoned and tormented, and corresponded to the Jewish word Γεέννα Geenna - “Gehenna.” It was regarded, commonly, as beneath the earth; as entered through the grave; as dark, dismal, gloomy; and as a place of punishment. Compare the Job_10:21-22 notes, and Mat_5:22 note. The word here is one that properly refers to a place of punishment, since the whole argument relates to that, and since it cannot be pretended that the “angels that sinned” were removed to a place of happiness on account of their transgression. It must also refer to punishment in some other world than this, for there is no evidence that This world is made a place of punishment for fallen angels.
but cast them down to hell; they were hurled out of heaven, from whence they fell as lightning, into the "lowest", or inferior places, as the Syriac version renders it; either into the air, as in Eph_2:2 or into the earth; as in Rev_12:9 or into the deep, the abyss, the bottomless pit, where they are detained, as in a prison, Luk_8:31 though for certain reasons, and at certain times, are suffered to come forth, and rove about in this earth, and in the air: and these, when removed from their ancient seats in heaven, were not merely bid to go away, as the wicked will at the day of judgment; or were "drove" out, as Adam was from the garden of Eden; but "cast down"; with great power, indignation, wrath, and contempt, never to be raised and restored again: