1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| I Samuel 2:6 | *The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again. Deuteronomy 32:39.; Tobias 13:2.; Wisdom 16:13. | Hell, (infernos,) "the lower regions." God calls us out of this world, or restores the dead to life, as he thinks proper. (Haydock) --- He easily makes the greatest prosperity succeed extreme distress, which is often denoted by death, hell, etc. So Seneca says, Mortis habet vices---Lentis cum trahitur vita gemitibus. The prodigal son is said to have come to life again, when his father received him, contrary to his expectations, Luke 15:24., and Psalm 29:4., etc. (Calmet) |