Gehenna
place · 8 works · 14 mentions · 18 anchored passages
eternal fire · the Blaze · the outer darkness · الجحيم · Jahannam · a more sulphurous Gehenna · al-Jaḥīm · al-nār · eternal punishment · outer darkness
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The place of unending fiery punishment for sinners after judgment.
but those who have practised evil, and all the impious and sinners, to eternal punishment, which is called Gehenna, and outer darkness, and the worm that does not sleep, and the gnashing of teeth, and ten thousand other torments — or rather, the hardest of all, to be estranged from God and cast away from his most sweet face, and to be deprived of that indescribable glory, and to be made a public e …
when the soul, taking up again its own body, will be cast out from the presence of the Lord and handed over to the fire of Gehenna that burns without end.
it makes those who loved it pitiably the dwellers of Gehenna.
Adversus Marcionem
The place of fiery punishment for sinners, contrasted between the god who allegedly kindles no fire there and the Creator who does.
He will prepare for them, I believe, a more sulphurous Gehenna — as for his blasphemers, of course;
— a better god has been found, who is neither offended nor angry nor avenges, for whom no fire is kindled in Gehenna, for whom no gnashing of teeth shudders in the outer darkness:
And so, since that which is to be feared after death is the Creator's — namely the penalty of Gehenna — then the denier too is the Creator's.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The hellfire, assigned to the soul in the fourfold distribution of soul, spirit, heart and secret.
Then the soul is in the Blaze, the spirit (rūḥ) in bliss, the heart (qalb) among the loftiest heights, and the secret with an Omnipotent Sovereign — that is, the possessor of the heart and the possessor of the secret.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Hell, named as Jahannam, al-nār and al-jaḥīm, over whose back the Path is stretched, into which the losers fall, in which the unbelievers abide for ever, and which the creed insists already exists.
and the Path is stretched over the back of Gehenna, and those of the standing-place pass over it, and the saved arrive at the Garden and the losers fall into the Blaze — all of this contrary to the philosophers in their claim that all of it is spiritual and not sensory.
And the Garden and the Fire are created now and existent — contrary to the Muʻtazilah;
Ad Uxorem
A place-name for hell or the demonic realm, used figuratively for pagan worship and taverns.
What mention of God from Gehenna?
The very priests of Gehenna practise continence.
Apologeticum
Underground treasury of hidden fire for punishment, cited alongside its pagan parallel Pyriphlegethon.
And if we threaten Gehenna, which is a treasury of hidden fire underground for punishment, we are likewise laughed to scorn.
De Paenitentia
The place of eternal fiery punishment that exomologesis can extinguish or avert.
What do we reckon that treasure of eternal fire to be, when certain little vent-holes of it stir up such strokes of flames that the neighbouring cities either no longer exist, or expect the like for themselves day by day?
De Pudicitia
Place of fiery punishment for the condemned.
For fire shall go forth before his face, and shall consume his enemies" — slaying not only the body, but also the souls, in Gehenna.
and for "You shall not kill," "He who shall say to his brother, Racha, shall be guilty of Gehenna.