![]() ![]() In this sublime song, death is represented as a terrible monster, having a deadly sting, wherewith it had destroyed the bodies of the whole human race, and the invisible world as an enemy who had imprisoned their spirits. “In this noble passage the apostle personifies death and the grave, and introduces the righteous after the resurrection, singing a song of victory over both. There many of the fallen angels are said to be imprisoned, 2 Peter 2:4. The place where the spirits of the righteous abide, the Jews called paradise the place where the wicked are shut up they called tartarus, after the Greeks. “The word hades literally signifies the invisible world, or the world where departed spirits, both good and bad, remain till the resurrection, Job 11:8 Psalm 139:9 Isaiah 14:9 and especially Psalm 16:10, Thou wilt not leave my soul in hades. ![]() O grave - Αδης, O hades, the receptacle of separate souls where is thy victory? - Thou art now robbed of thy spoils all thy captives are set at liberty. O death, where is thy sting? - Which once was full of hellish poison. ![]()
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