In the Hebrew Bible, the term Sheol is the shadowy abode of the dead. It is often depicted as “down below,” silent, and without active praise of God. Judaism's earliest concepts of the afterlife were ...

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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (during His Anglican days) commented : Our Savior, as we suppose, did not go to the abyss assigned to the fallen angels, but to those mysterious mansions where the ...