Hell
a place of punishment, found, with more or less distinctness, in nearly all ethnic forms of religion, the precise nature of the punishment varying widely.
Three definite stages in the concept of hell may be traced: (1) a vague notion of a future life, to be spent in misery, with little or no idea of moral retribution; (2) it. ranks as a place of torment for those HELLEBORE who have offended the gods, but is conceived as limited in duration; and (3) it becomes an important factor in the moral government of the universe, a place where evil deeds done in this life are rigorously punished. In the Old Testament used chiefly for Hades, as in Psalm xviii: 5, cxvi: 3, cxxxix: 8, Prov. v: 5, Isa. xiv: 9; Hab. ii; 5. More rarely in the New Testament it is used in the same sense, as in Acts ii: 31 with reference to Psalm xvi: 10, and apparently in Rev. i: 18, vi: 8, xx: 13, 14, though the language is mostly figurative. In the Apostles' Creed the article "He descended into hell" means into Hades. This sense of the word is now obsolete, except in old formulas or other archaic writings.
The place of woe. This is the common New Testament sense of the word, and is the rendering of Greek Geenna (Gehenna). Of those cast into it Jesus says, "Where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched" (Mark. ix: 44, 46- 48), the language being adapted from Isa. lxvi: 24. This fire is said to be everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt. xxv: 41).
HELLEBORE (hel'ä-bor), in pharmacy, the dried rhizome of Veratrum viride, growing in swampy districts of the United States. It is used to control the vascular system in cases of rheumatic gout.
HENDERSON quest of America" (1855-1861); lives of "Pizarro" (1869); and "Cortes" (1871); "Realmah, a Romance" (1868); and "Ivan de Brion, a Russian Story" (1874).
He died in London, March 7, 1875.