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(the Hebrew word was Sheol), but they also distinguished in it the abode or state of the Blest as PARADISE, or the
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Garden of Eden, or
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ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, or
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UNDER THE THRONE, _e. g._,
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Abraham whom God planted in the Garden of Paradise,
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The holy Judah rests this day in
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Abraham's Bosom.
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--Lazarus
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To-day thou shalt be with Me in PARADISE is His promise to the dying thief. And it is clear that He did not mean the final Heaven for He says,
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No man hath ascended into Heaven only the Son of Man who is in Heaven. Even He Himself did not go to Heaven when He died, for this is His statement after the Resurrection,
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I have not yet ascended unto My Father. Where, then, did His Spirit go? The whole Church throughout the world repeats every Sunday, in the creed,
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He was dead and buried, and descended into HADES --the life of the waiting souls. St. Peter tells us in his first Epistle that in those three days Christ's living Spirit went and preached to the spirits in safe keeping who had been disobedient in the old world. For which cause he says,
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The same thought was evidently in his mind in his first sermon (Acts ii. 31).
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David, he says,
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or the
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_e. g._,
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That ye may be saved in the Day of the Lord,
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The Day of the Lord is as a thief in the night,
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Looking for and hasting to the coming of the Day of God,
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Keep the commandment till the appearing of our Lord,
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To be found with praise at the appearing of Jesus,