Gehenna
No hell at all, but a valley near Jerusalem, where Israelites immolated their children to Moloch. In that valley a place name Tophet was situated, where a fire was perpetually preserved for sanitary purposes. The prophet Jeremiah informs us that his countrymen, the Jews, used to sacrifice their children on that spot. (TG)
In times long past a debtor was cast into a pit called gehenna. Why crawl there of one’s own free will? (LMG II, p 122)
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