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The oldest writings of the Jews don't say anything about living forever, or going to heaven or hell or paradise or gehenna or whatever.— Greensboring® Greensboro, NC
Returning souls are willing to suffer the fires of gehenna for years just to get a back seat to the show.— Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ]
The lower world (sheol, [Greek: aidęs]), formerly the general abode of the dead, of bad and good without distinction, was split into two parts, paradise and gehenna, and became a place of recompense, and, along with this, religion, once an end, became the means of warding off a dreaded punishment, or of gaining a future of bliss.— A Comparative View of Religions
'An excellent gehenna,' says he.— Là-bas
Nevertheless, at first he was disposed to limit them, in accordance with the wishes of the Duchess, to extra-mural exercises Upon his arrival, by a somewhat ominous conjuncture, he had supped with some of the leading citizens in the hall of the "gehenna" or torture room, certainly not a locality calculated to inspire a healthy appetite.— PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

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