Origen y contexto de las reformas de la seguridad social en Argentina

only proper rafarsnaa to Faradisa in th is cantusy though

a llu sio n s to i t appear in many other passages. Paradise

(60:8) baeomas tha place mhera Enoch mas taken up, idiia h

is tha place mhara tha e le c t and the righteous dm all.

"th e refaranca to * a ll tiba e le c t mho dm all in tha Garden

o f lif e * (61:12) shows th a t in th is century, fo r tha f ir s t

tim a. Paradise is eonceivad to be the intarm adiate abode

o f a ll tha rightaotts and alaot# In the previoos century

only two man***nsmaly, Enoch and E lijsh --*m a ra held to

have bean adm itted to Paradise immadiataly upon leaving

th is morld ( I Enoch 8 7 :3,4 ; 8 9 :3 2 )."** A aaaCmry la te r

in Second Enoch me fin d th a t parW isa lia s batmaan

**^ o o m y tib ility and in c o r r u p tib ility ." Tha righteous coma

hare to liv e in b lis s through e te rn a l lif e . ''In tha

1 64 T$#tam«ot of Abraham also Paradlaa appears to be viewed

àa the final abode of the righteous. Those that pass through the narrow gate which leads to life, it is said, enter into Paradise (ch. 11). A soul is said to have been saved by righteous prayer axnà carried up into Paradise

(ch. 14). Angels escorted the soul of Abraham into heaven, and set it to adore God the Father. God bade them to

uplift Abraham into Paradise, * where are the tabernacles of vxy righteous ones, and the abodes of my holy ones, Isaac and Jacob, in his bosom, where there is no toil, neither grief nor mourning, but peace and exultation and

life everlasting* (Ch. 22)."** After the resurrection, people shall be drawn to Paradise and God will dwell among them and will be in their midst. Finally at the conclusion

of the Inter-testamental period the form and function of Paradise cane so close to that of Heaven that the two were inter^mingled and hopelessly entwined, that they have come down to our day as such. Thus throughout the History of the Christian Church the two have becoeie synonymous.

The term Gehenna became a synonym for the terms of "valley", "abyss", "fire", and "place of punishment."*^ In the first twenty-six ch^ters "several passages speak

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of an abyss of fire and torment into %diich the fallen angels will be oast on the day of the great judgement (of, 10:5, 13). Although this is not definitely named Gehenna or Hell, it should be kept in mind as one of the conceptions which probably moulded the later conception of Hell (of. 2Pet. 2:4; Jude vs. 6; Rev. 20:10, 14, 15; Mt. 25:41). It is possibly the same abyss of fire to Wiich reference is made in 18:2 (of. 19:lf.). A fuller description of this place is given in 21:7ff. Enoch saw ^a great fire there which burnt and biased % and

was informed that this was the prison of the angels where %

they should be imprisoned for ever (cf. 90:24).** Also in this book we find that Sheol has t A m on some of A e same characteristics as Gehenna. In due course the

characteristics of Gehenna were absorbed by Hell. Thus, in this century, Sheol has

become Hell; it is regarded as the place of final eternal punishment, and as the place idiere souls are slain, though not annihilated, for they still cry and make lamentation (108:3). In the previous century, as we have seen, the view is ex­ pressed that the souls of the wicked had to be raised out of Sheol in order

that they might be slain (cf. 22:11-13). Now for the first time Sheol becomes the abode of fire. In the second century B. C. the prevailing view was that Gehenna was to be the final

1 66 abode of Jewish apostates » %Aose

sufferings were to be an everpresent spectacle to the righteous. Now it is said to be specially designed for the kings and the mighty, and after a time it will for ever vanish from

the s i ^ t of the righteous (cf. 53 $2,5). this change of view is probably due to

the fact that in the Parables, after the Judgement, there is supposed to be a new h e a v œ and a new earth in which there is no room for Gehenna.

A further difference is that

whereas Gehenna had always been viewed as a place of corporal as well as

spiritual punishment, in the passages indicated above (91*104) it is a place of spiritual punishment only.

However, there was an ever increasing belief that the

assignment of souls to Gehenna for beliefs and mistakes in this life was inconsistent with both the mercy and the Justice of God, These ideas were preserved and promoted