This conception should not be rashly transferred to the New Testament, for the latter stands not under the influence of Greek pagan belief, but gives a teaching and reflects a belief which model their idea of Hades upon the Old Testament through the Septuagint. The Greek conception of Hades was that of a locality receiving into itself all the dead, but divided into two regions, one a place of torment, the other of blessedness. In the Septuagint Hades is the standing equivalent for Sheol, but also translates other terms associated with death and the state after it. the Revised Version (British and American) everywhere has "Hades." It is also found in Textus Receptus of the New Testament 1 Corinthians 15:55, but here the correct reading (Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, the Revised Version (British and American)) is probably Thanate, "O Death," instead of Haide, "O Hades." the King James Version renders "Hades" by "hell" in all instances except 1 Corinthians 15:55, where it puts "grave" (margin "hell") in dependence on Hosea 13:14. The word occurs in the New Testament in Matthew 11:23 (parallel Luke 10:15) Matthew 16:18 Luke 16:23 Acts 2:27,31 Revelation 1:18 6:8 20:13 f. Hades, Greek originally Haidou, in genitive, "the house of Hades," then, as nominative, designation of the abode of the dead itself. Ha'-dez (Haides, haides, "not to be seen"):
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