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He read that `because this Man continueth to eternity, untransferable hath He the priesthood. He read that `if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, and He is the propitiation for our sins. And again he read some grand words, said by this Man Himself, `I am the First and the Last, and the Living One: and I was dead, and am alive for evermore; and with Me are the keys of Sheol and of death. Oh, it was so different, Doucebelle, from your priests' sermons generally!
It does not, of course, follow, from the fact that Shuâlu or Sheôl is the place of 'oracles, that all the dead have the power to furnish oracles or can be invoked for this purpose. Correspondingly, if we find that the Babylonians did deify their dead, it does not mean that at one time all the dead were regarded as gods.
"You say he WILL do this in heaven. Is he, then, not there yet?" "He was not far from heaven on earth, yet technically none of us can be in heaven till after the general resurrection. Then, as we knew on earth, we shall receive bodies, though, as yet, concerning their exact nature we know but little more than then. We are all in sheol the just in purgatory and paradise, the unjust in hell."
Now, at last, the Messiah or Christ had come as a second Adam, and being without sin had been raised by Jehovah out of Sheol and taken up into heaven, as testimony to men that the power of sin and death was at last defeated. The way henceforth to avoid death and escape the exile to Sheol was to live spiritually like Jesus, and with him to be dead to sensual requirements.
With us any good mechanic is allowed a cent a day! I count out the tailor, but not the others they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. I've paid a hundred and fifteen myself, within the week. 'Rah for protection to Sheol with free-trade!" And his face shone upon the company like a sunburst.
This thought is expressed in the powerful passage which seems to voice the central teaching of the poem: Love is strong as death; Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be condemned.
The descriptions of Sheol found in Job, in the Psalms, in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and elsewhere are hardly to be distinguished from those that we have encountered in Babylonian literature. For Job, Sheol is The land of darkness and deep shadows. The land of densest gloom and not of light. Even where there is a gleam, there it is as dark night.
"Thou must not, thou wilt not leave my soul in sheol, thou must not, thou wilt not suffer thy loved ones to see the pit." To this man it is incredible, and our hearts bear witness to the truth if we have had any experience of God's blessing and guidance.
The early Jew thought of death much as did the early Greek, as the extinction of all that was precious in life, and the transition to a shadowy and forlorn existence in the realm of shades. The Hades of Homer seems much to resemble the Sheol of the Old Testament, though more vividly conceived.
Mr Bilger, junior, presently followed her into the kitchen. I went after him and ordered him out. Mary was leaning against the dresser, biting her nails and looking at me viciously. He stood up as I passed, and said politely that it looked like rain. I requested him to make a visit to Sheol, and passed on. In the afternoon my sister called upon me at the Evening News office.
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