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RESURRECTION OR IMMORTALITYThat would make for an interesting topic in itself.
Very few Bible versions use "gehenna" in their translation. One that does is YLT, a favorite of mine:
Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Genesis 1:1 (YLT)
"gehenna"occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the YLT.
See results from these other Bibles:
1 result in the VUL James 3:3
Mat 10:28
'And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
John 2:
14 and He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
15 and having made a whip of small cords, He put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen;.....................
[Nahum 3:2["sound of whip"/Reve 18:11-13]
Reve 18:
8 Yet this, in one day, shall be arriving the stripes of Her, death and sorrow and famine.
And in fire She shall be being burned/katakauqhsetai <2618> (5701),
that strong Lord the God, the one judging Her.
11 'And the merchants of the land shall weep and sorrow over Her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;
13 and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.
Gehenna - Lake of Everlasting Fire...Just Outside Jerusalem - Christianity Original
3) Where exactly is Gehenna?
The Valley of Hinnom, named Gehenna in Greek, lies just outside the city of Jerusalem. During Jesus’ time, it was the city’s garbage burner.
Gehenna Valley – The Curious Case of the Undying Worms
7) Jesus says in Gehenna ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched’ (Mark 9:47-48 NIV). Many assume that it must be only in a mystic hell that worms don’t die even in fire. Isn’t that the case?
Only those who know Jesus’ first century Gehenna Valley will know the true meaning of this phrase.
No torture. Only complete destruction. Jesus used the same Gehenna in his Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5:22). The Gehenna Valley was not far from where Jesus uttered these words.
8) What does Jesus signify with all these in terms of the Gehenna Valley?
- Even today, we know that fire is kept continually burning in city waste burners. In the same fashion, fires were kept burning (not quenched) in the Gehenna Valley of that time.
- But, why did the worms not die? Because these worms were not exactly amidst the fires. Fires used to burn at the bottom of the Gehenna Valley. It was in the vegetation that lined the slopes of the valley that the worms thrived. Jesus was referring to those worms.
Dead bodies thrown into Gehenna Valley would be destroyed by the fires burning below. The ones that might get stuck in the slopes would be consumed by worms
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