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An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades
by Flavius Josephus

Translated by William Whiston

1. Now as to Hades, wherein the souls of the of the good things they see, and rejoice in
the righteous and unrighteous are detained, it is necessary to speak of it. Hades is a place
in the world not regularly finished; a subterraneous region, wherein the light of this world
does not shine; from which circumstance, that in this region the light does not shine, it
cannot be but there must be in it perpetual darkness. This region is allotted as a place of
custody for souls, ill which angels are appointed as guardians to them, who distribute to
them temporary punishments, agreeable to every one's behavior and manners.
2. In this region there is a certain place set apart, as a lake of unquenchable fire,
whereinto we suppose no one hath hitherto been cast; but it is prepared for a day
afore-determined by God, in which one righteous sentence shall deservedly be passed
upon all men; when the unjust, and those that have been disobedient to God, and have
given honor to such idols as have been the vain operations of the hands of men as to God
himself, shall be adjudged to this everlasting punishment, as having been the causes of
defilement; while the just shall obtain an incorruptible and never-fading kingdom. These

are now indeed confined in Hades, but not in the same place wherein the unjust are
confined.
3. For there is one descent into this region, at whose gate we believe there stands an
archangel with an host; which gate when those pass through that are conducted down by
the angels appointed over souls, they do not go the same way; but the just are guided to
the right hand, and are led with hymns, sung by the angels appointed over that place, unto
a region of light, in which the just have dwelt from the beginning of the world; not
constrained by necessity, but ever enjoying the prospect of the good things they see, and
rejoic in the expectation of those new enjoyments which will be peculiar to every one of
them, and