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The souls of the godly abide in some better place and the souls of the unrighteous in a worse place expecting the time of judgment.... These who hold that when men die their souls are at once taken to heaven are not to be accounted Christians or even Jews (Justin Martyr, A. D. 150, _Dialogue with Trypho_).
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The souls of Christ's disciples go to the invisible place determined for them by God and there dwell awaiting the Resurrection (Irenaeus, _Against Heretics_, A. D. 180).
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All souls are sequestered in Hades till the Day of the Lord (Tertullian, _De Anima_, A. D. 200).
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Let no man think that souls are judged immediately after death; all are detained in one common place of safe keeping till the time when the Supreme Judge makes His scrutiny (Lactantius, _Div. Institutes_).
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During the interval between death and resurrection men's souls are kept in hidden receptacles according as they severally deserve rest or punishment
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In My Father's house are many mansions
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Hell, just the same as the darker word Gehenna. At the time of the translation of the Authorized Version the old English word _hell_--the hole--the unseen, had not yet stiffened into the awful meaning that it has attained in our day. It was not then a word set apart to designate the abode of the lost. It simply meant the
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In the south of England still a thatcher who _covers in_ a house is called a
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Even in games it was used. In the old English games of forfeits, on the village green, the
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is the hidden place where the girls ran away to escape being kissed. You can see it had no awful meaning necessarily connected with it. Therefore it did not seem repulsive to translate the Greek word
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Hades, the Unseen, by the English
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Hell.