But the evidence adduced by FARRAR (Mercy and Judgment, p

Some Rabbis seem to have held (as did certain of the Fathers) the final annihilation of the wicked

Most significant is it that in the original of the New Testament, the horrors of unending agony, which these terms conjure up for so many, vanish when we come to know that by “damnation” is simply meant “judgment,” or at most “condemnation,” as our Revisers now fully admit in their version; and by “hell” is only meant, either the place of disembodied souls, Hades, (as our Revisers now render it) or the Jewish Gehenna (see Revised Version), a place of temporary punishment in its literal sense, where the worms fed continually, it is true, and the fire for ever burned; but in both cases purifying, and causing no pain (for the bodies were those of the dead); and where both “undying ” worm, and “unquenchable” fire, have long since, in their literal sense, passed away. 180-215), by COX, Salv.