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See the passages in Jeremias' Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode, p. 62. Sargon Annals, I. 156. Kosmologie, pp. 222-224. Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 154, note 5. In the later portions of the Old Testament, the use of Sheol is also avoided. See the passages in Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels, pp. 59, 60.
I have noticed these words of mine, and two passages besides, which he quotes, above at pp. 222-224. Here I will but observe on the subject of venial sin generally, that he altogether forgets our doctrine of purgatory. This punishment may last till the day of judgment; so much for duration; then as to intensity, let the image of fire, by which we denote it, show what we think of it.
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