Hades
3. Where is Hades? |
Hades is in
the low parts of the earth. That is what we infer from these words of God against
Tyrus: “When I shall bring thee down
with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall
set thee in the low parts of the earth,
in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be
not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living” (Ezekiel
26:20), and also from these words of God against Pharaoh king of Egypt: “To
the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their
height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their
trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all
delivered unto death, to the nether
parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go
down to the pit. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to
the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep
for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were
stayed: and I caused |