1 Enoch 22:9

Pseudepigrapha

7 And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit of Abel, whom his brother Cain killed, and he pleads against him until his seed is wiped from the face of the earth, and his descendants are destroyed among the seed of men.' 8 Then I asked about it, and about all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from the other?' 9 And he answered me and said: 'These three have been made so that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been made for the spirits of the righteous, which includes the bright spring of 10 water. And one has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their 11 lifetime. Here their spirits shall be kept in great pain until the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who are cursed forever, and retribution for their spirits. There

Luke 16:26

New Testament

24 So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue because I am in anguish in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ 27 So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father—send Lazarus to my father’s house 28 (for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

 Notes and References

"... Go down to the depths ... Literally go down to Hades. “Hades” is the Greek term used to translate Sheol in the LXX. It can refer to the place of the dead (Psalm 89:48), the opposite of heaven (Psalm 139:8; Amos 9:2), or the place of the unrighteous dead (1 Enoch 22:3-13; 63:10; 99:11; 2 Esdras 7:36). It is used in the latter sense in Luke 16:22-26 and probably should be understood in the same way here. Whether in Jesus’ day there was a clear distinction between “Hades” and hell (Gehenna) is much debated but still uncertain. What is clear is that it designates a place of punishment for the unrighteous. The imagery comes from Isaiah 14:13, 15 ..."

Stein, Robert H. The New American Commentary: Luke (p. 307) Broadman Press, 1992

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