NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07956125 8 THE NEW TESTAMENT IDEA HELL BY S. M. MERRILL, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. CINCINNATI: HITCHCOCK AND WALDEN. NEW YORK: NELSON & PHILLIPS. 1878. PUeUCUBRARY 218854 160f Copyright by HITCHCOCK c& \A^ALDEN, 1878. —S6LtJ 'tfWrVAT^ DREW THEOLOGICAL \ ^ ' SEMINARY LIBRARY. _/ PREFACE. 'nr^HIS little book is written for readers of -*- the English Scriptures, and not for those having access to the wide range of theological discussions found in the ponderous works on S\'stematic Divinity, which crowd the libraries of the learned. It therefore avoids, as far as possible, the use of foreign words and elaborate criticisms, keeping an e\'e to the needs of ordinary inquirers and themseeking to lead to the knowledge of the meaning and use of the original terms Hell in the New Testament.translated isNo pretension made to having dis- covered any meaning in those words, or any fact in regard to their origin, history, or use not previously known, and not well estab- minds of all who have givenlished in the Theparticular attention . to the subject. 190*MAR.27OOP.EXCH. SBM.v^otnsr THBOU PREFACE.4 find, however, that the Scripturesreader will are classified a little differ-containing them so applied as toently, and that the terms are their specific differences into greaterbring into right relations. This isprominence and of the chief features of the work, and ifone realized the result will be acceptedthis aim is publication.
NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07956125 8THE NEW TESTAMENT IDEA HELL BY S. M. MERRILL, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. CINCINNATI: HITCHCOCK AND WALDEN. NEW YORK: NELSON & PHILLIPS. 1878.PUeUCUBRARY 218854 160f Copyright by HITCHCOCK c& \A^ALDEN, 1878. —S6LtJ 'tfWrVAT^ DREW THEOLOGICAL \ ^ ' SEMINARY LIBRARY. _/