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Message Subject You don't understand the sorrows of hell
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Extract out of Josephus’s discourse to the Greeks, concerning Hades: wherein are contained the souls of the righteous and the unrighteous.

1. And this is the discourse concerning dæmons. Now as to Hades, wherein the souls of the righteous and unrighteous are detained, it is necessary to speak of it. Hades is a place in the world not regularly finished: a subterraneous region, wherein the light of this world does not shine. From which circumstance, that in this region the light does not shine, it cannot be but there must be in it perpetual darkness. This region is allotted as a place of custody for souls; in which angels are appointed as guardians to them: who distribute to them temporary punishments, agreeable to every one’s behaviour and manners.1

2. In this region there is a certain place set apart, as a lake of unquenchable fire. Whereinto we suppose no one hath hitherto been cast: but it is prepared for a day afore determined by God: in which one righteous sentence shall deservedly be passed upon all men. When the unjust, and those that have been disobedient to God, and have given honour to such idols as have been the vain operations of the hands of men, as to God himself, shall be adjudged to this everlasting punishment: as having been the causes of defilement: while the just shall obtain an incorruptible and never fading Kingdom. These are now indeed confined in Hades: but not in the same place wherein the unjust are confined.2
 
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