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All dead both in Christ and those who are not are in sheol, hades, or the grave (mistranslated hell or hades in many bible versions).— Pulpit Pimps
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
Some say that they had a belief in a sheol or pit where departed souls remained after death, but were never resurrected.— Five Lectures on Reincarnation
"It is rather sheol, the place of departed spirits.— A journey in other worlds A romance of the future
We are all in sheol--the just in purgatory and paradise, the unjust in hell Since you are still in purgatory, are you unhappy No, our state is very happy.— A journey in other worlds A romance of the future

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