(23) It is possible that the "sons of Resheph" are the malefic spirits whose proper place is
Sheol. Sinners cause these spirits to rise up and harm them.
En la pared central, Maria Inmaculada esta junto a su Elijo al pie de la Cruz; inmediatamente debajo, aparece Cristo resucitado descendiendo con poder al
sheol para salvar a nuestros primeros padres.
(39) He does not want to vanquish all hope for the apparently lost or discourage saints from doing penance for the conversion of sinners, so the seriousness of human freedom met on the Cross is taken as a call to participate in Christ's redemption of man from
Sheol. Thus, there is a certain tension in his thought between affirming the power of Christ's descent to transform hearts and the freedom of man to reject even this summit of God's love for him:
This passage celebrates David's sense of God's presence and includes the prophetic words, "For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One experience corruption." Hades refers to the realm of the dead,
sheol in Hebrew.
However, in this dystopian world where Scion security forces punish all paranormal activity, Paige soon finds herself in
Sheol 1, a prison in what used to be Oxford.
Lewis and William Hoye: The Reduction of Hell to
Sheol and Limbo
Nothing lies beyond this world except an amorphous place called
Sheol in which good and bad alike exist in some sort of suspended animation.
9:18), "The wicked will return to
Sheol, all nations who have forgotten God." As to the phrase, "The wicked will return to
Sheol"--this refers to the wicked Israelites.
** Unfaithful Jews punished by the law, "acts of God," or
SheolTheir souls will be made to descend into
Sheol, into darkness and chains and a burning flame ...
"O Lord, you brought up my soul from
Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit." People in grief often describe a long fog.
[...] And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage, this pathetic drift between the eternities, is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life, and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me: the rest may land in
Sheol and welcome, for all I care.