What is Tartarus?
Their being cast into “Tartarus” refers to their being debased, cut off from God’s favor and all enlightenment. This is evident from the fact that the expression ‘throwing into Tartarus’ in the original Greek is a verb. So it refers to an act of debasement and not to a literal place. The idea conveyed is similar to the English word “debase,” which uses the noun “base” but does not in itself suggest the existence of a literal base. The Bible here uses symbolic language that the Greeks would understand with Homer’s Iliad. See Jude 6. What is Hades and Sheol? As we see from the above, Hades and Sheol are simply the grave. That is why the Rotherham Bible says, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do> < with thy might> do, for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither thou art going.” Eccl 9:10 Checking the marginal references in the 1611 Edition of the King James Version at Psalms 55:15; 86:13; Isaiah 14:9; and Jonah 2:2, you will see that “Hell” is indeed the
