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This last passage shews that the Hades 1 of Scripture 

 usually translated Hell, but distinct from the Gehenna or 

 Hell of the New Testament is synonymous with the 

 abyss. As is further proved by the following passage of 

 the book of Job. Hast thou entered into the springs of 

 the sea ? Or hast thou walked in the search of the abyss ? 

 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, or hast thou 

 seen the gates of the shadow of death ? 2 In this passage 

 the springs of the sea, the abyss, the gates of death, and 

 the gates of the shadow of death, seem nearly synonymous, 

 or to indicate, at least, different portions, of the womb of 

 our globe. The bottomless pit, or rather the pit of the 

 abyss of the apocalypse, also belongs to the same place : 

 the word rendered pit means also a well. Schleusner, in 

 his lexicon, translates the phrase by Puteus sen fons 

 abyssi, so that it seems to indicate a mighty source of 

 waters. But as the terms abyss and great abyss are applied 

 to the receptacle of waters exposed to the atmosphere, as 

 well as to those which are concealed in the womb of our 

 globe, 3 it is evident that they form one great body of 

 waters in connexion with each other. 



NOTE 10, p. 27. He who willed the deluge, and the 

 destruction of the primeval earth and heavens by it, fyc. 

 When it is considered that all the knowledge which we 

 have, and can have, of the contents of the globe that we 

 inhabit, is very superficial; that it is only, as it were, skin 

 deep, and consequently very imperfect, it seems as if we 

 stood in great need of some other guide, besides our own 

 reasonings and guesses upon the little that we can explore 

 of the earth's crust, to enable us to form a correct judg- 



1 Heb. f?iNttf. 2 Job xxxviii. 16, 17. 



3 Job xli. 31, Ps. cvi. 9. Isai. li. 10, &c. 



