This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...on fire the foundations of the mountains." The image is a tremendous one, --viz., that of a fire so intense and dreadful as not only to consume all that is on the surface of the ground, but to burn deep down into the under-world. 1 Sam. ii. 6, The Lord killeth and maketh alive; he bringeth down to She6l and bringeth up; i.e. he bringeth down to the grave or region of the dead, and bringeth or raiseth up from the same. That such is the meaning of this passage, seems plain from the first part of the verse, in which it is said, The Lord killeth and maketh alive: the equivalent of which is, the Lord bringeth down to She6l, and raiseth up from it. If by She6l here hell (in its appropriate sense) is meant, then how shall the last clause be construed, --viz., The Lord bringeth up from Sheol? Is it then a Scripture doctrine that the Lord brings up from the "eternal pit" those who are once confined there? Or rather, do not the Scriptures teach that "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever"? 2 Sam. xxii. 6, the snares of She6l encompassed me; the deadly nets came upon me. Our English version renders thus: " The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me," i.e. came before me, for this is the sense in which the word prevent is employed, in our version, and not in the sense of hinder, which would here misrepresent the Hebrew. This version evidently sacrifices the parallelism of the original Hebrew, in which the snares of Sheol and the nets or snares of death are equivalents. It seems to sacrifice propriety also; for in what tolerable sense could David say that the sorrows of hell (in our present sense of this word) encompassed him? But when, in describing a scene of the...