The propriety of giving Satan, as king of Hades, the classical name of Aïdoneus, needs only to be suggested. 2.-,. that his pride may play at Jove. There is perhaps no occasion for explaining why those who represent in Hades the ethnic deities, sometimes give the Supreme Being the name of Jove. Astarte or Ashtaroth, the Diana of the Phenicians, and thus identified with the Persephone of the Greeks, BOOK II. 1.-In the same world of demons and damned men. It may not be thought superfluous, perhaps, to explain why Paradise and the place to which custom gives and limits the name of Hell, are made regions of the same place. "The word Hades, which occurs eleven times in the New Testament, and is very frequently used in the Septuagint translation of the Old, never signifies in Scripture the place of torment, but always the place appropriated for the common reception of departed souls. There is no single word in our language that has this signification. Homer, Hesiod, Plato, and other Greek writers, distinguish Hades from Tartarus, which was the place of punishment for the wicked.”—Tomline's Exposition of the Third Article. "Our English, or rather Saxon word, hell, in its original signification (though it is now understood in a more limited sense), exactly answers to the Greek word Hades, and denotes a concealed or unseen place; and this sense of the word is still retained in the eastern, and especially in the western counties of England; to hell over a thing is to cover it."-Parkhurst's Greek Lexicon; word "Adns. "By Hell may be meant the invisible place to which departed souls are carried after death; for though the Greek word so rendered does now commonly stand for the place of the damned, and has for many ages been so understood, yet, at the time of writing the New Testament, it was among Greek authors used indifferently for the place of all departed souls, whether good or * * bad; and by it were meant the invisible regions where those spirits were lodged. * *That the regions of the blessed were known then to the Jews by the name of Paradise, as hell was known by the name of Gehenna, is very clear from Christ's last words, 'to-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.'"-Burnet on the Third Article. That our Lord gives the weight of his authority to the Jewish opinion that Paradise and Gehenna were in the same region of space-the place of all departed souls, supposed by them to be the under-world-is proved by the parable of Dives and Lazarus, in which a soul in torment and one of the blessed are made to converse with each other across a gulf. Born ere their Saviour-till that Saviour's power ad "Inferiora [Eph. IV. 9] autem terræ infernus accipitur, quem Dominus noster Salvatorque descendit, ut Sanctorum animas, quæ ibi tenebantur inclusæ, secum ad coelos Victor abduceret."-St. Jerome. "Nihil aliud teneatis nisi quod vera fides per catholicam ecclesiam docet; quia descendens ad inferos Dominus illos solummodo ab inferni claustris eripuit, quos viventes in carne per suam gratiam in fide et bona operatione servavit."—Gregory the Great. "The end for which the soul of Christ descended into hell was |