A Course of Critical Lectures; Or, Systematical Theology, in Four Parts, Viz Theology, Demonology, Christology, and Anthropology - 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. 1825. Excerpt: ... This word, which is translated Hell in the scriptures of the old Testament, signifies only the state of the dead indiscriminately.--Thus Ps. 89. 47, according to the translation of the common prayer reads, what man is he that liveth, and shall not see death; and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell? What Solomon says, (Prov. 27, 20.) hell and destruction are never full, is perfectly explained by chap. 30. 15, there be three things which are never satisfied--Sheol or Hell, etc. The Hebrew word, sheol is derived from shaal, to ask, pray, or hide. Kennicot, who compared the bible with above 1000 Mss. and thus became a practical Hebrician, affirms that the radical meaning of shaal, is to ask or pray. In this sense our translators understood it, Gen. 32, 29. Deut. 4, 32, and 32, 7. Josh. 4, 6. Jud. 18, 5, etc. The septuagint renders it ailesan, in Ex. 3, 22, and every impartial inquirer will be satisfied by consulting Pool's Annotations on the passage, Whltby on Acts, 2, 27, Kennicot's first dissertation p. 390, and Shuckford's Connections, vol. 2, p. 340. The learned Buxtorf defines sheol, the "general place of the dead;" and another very competent judge and excellent Commentator, Dr. Whitby, says according to the scriptures, the Jewish writers, the ancient Fathers and the still more ancient heathen, the Hebrew Sheol, and the Greek Hades, which answers to it in the translation of the Seventy, signifies the place and receptical of all the dead. In this sense alone can we understand the sacred writers.--In the first place where the word sheol as a noun occurs, Gen. 37, 35, we find the pious Patriarch, saying, ' / will go down into Sheol, to my son mourning." How absurd to suppose that Jacob believed his beloved son to be in a place of torment! And ho...

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