brimstone charles pridgeon gives a quote from his scholarly work on the subject of brimstone. he says, [the lake of fire and brimstone] signifies a fire burning with [brimstone]. the word brimstone or sulphur defines the character of the [fire]... the greek word [theion] translated brimstone is exactly the same word [theion] which means [divine]. sulphur was sacred to the deity among the ancient greeks and was used to fumigate, to purify, and to cleanse and consecrate to the deity. for this purpose they burned it in their incense..... In homers lliad [16;228], one is spoken of as purifying a goblet with fire and brimstone... the verb derived from [theion] is [theioo], which means to hallow, to make divine or to dedicate to a god [see liddel and scott greek- english lexicon, 1897 edition]. to any greek, or any trained in the greek language, a lake of fire and brimstone would mean [a lake of divine purification]. the idea of [judgement] need not be excluded. divine purification and divine consecration are the plain meaning in ancient greek. In the ordinary explanation this fundamental meaning of the word is entirely left out, and nothing but eternal torment is asociated with it, end of quote......I realize that the above thoughts define the subject very briefly, but lets summarize the meanings thus.... [burn] means combustion; to change the form of. (fire) means heat and light. (brimstone) means divine. put these 3 together and we can see that the lake burning with (fire) and ( brimstone) is actually divine heat and light producing a change! Is such a process eternal? all the laws of nature shout IT IS NOT! 30 minutes ago
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:58:32 +0000
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