sheol

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"It is rather sheol, the place of departed spirits.

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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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