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Job 10:21

Before I go where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Death, to the grave, or to hell, (Calmet) if my sins deserve it. (Haydock)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
95. For what is denoted by ‘the land of darkness’ saving the dreary caverns of Tartarus, which are covered by the shadow of eternal death, in that it keeps all the damned for evermore severed from the light of life. Neither is the place below improperly called a land. For all they that have been made captive by it, are held fast and firm. As it is written; One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever. [Eccl. 1, 4] Thus the dungeons of hell are rightly designated ‘a land of darkness,’ for all, whom they receive doomed to punishment, they torment with no transient infliction or phantasm of the imagination, but keep in the substantial vengeance of everlasting damnation. Yet they are sometimes denoted by the title of ‘a lake,’ as the Prophet bears witness, when he says, They have borne their shame with them that go down into the lake. [Ezek. 32, 24. 25] Thus hell is both called ‘a land,’ because it holds stedfastly all that it takes in, ...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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