A Letter to the REV. Bernard Whitman, on the Term Gehenna, Rendered Hell in the Common Version - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834. Excerpt: ... above, and he admits it here, that Philo and Josephus lived not far from the commencement of the Christian era.' Mr. Whitman, here then are two writers, who lived about the days of the Saviour, as all allow, yet are silent about gehenna meaning future punishment at that period. But, 2. You will say--Mr. Stuart declares, 'Onkelos and Jonathan lived about the same periods,' and certainly Jonathan uses gehenna as meaning future punishment. I am aware of this, but must call your attention to the following circumstances, which go to prove that Jonathan's Targum did not exist in the days of the Saviour. If it did, how happened he to mention that gehenna then meant future punishment 1 Onkelos is silent about this, and yet his Targum is allowed to be older and better than all the other Targutn's, Jonathan's not excepted. Besides, Philo, Josephus, and I may add some of the Apocryphal books, certainly were written about the days of the Saviour, yet none of them hint that gehenna then meant future punishment. And observe, sir, Mr. Stuart is candid enough to say:--'I know the age of these two Chaldee translators, (Onkelos and Jonathan) has been questioned, and set down to a period much later, by Eichhorn and some others.' This being admitted, to say the least, the age of these writers is very doubtful, and is much disputed among critics. The very circumstance of Jonathan mentioning gehenna as meaning future punishment, while Onkelos, Philo, and Josephus are silent about it, shows his Targum to be of a more modern date, or your quotations from it are the corruptions and additions made to it in later ages. To use the words of Mr. Stuart:--'In all these writers, so far as their works have yet been examined, there appears a deep and universal silence on the subject of g...