Christian views on Hades
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Hades, according to various Christian denominations, is "the place or state of departed spirits", borrowing the name of Hades, the name of the underworld in Greek mythology. It is often associated wit
Lazarus and the Rich Man (illumination from the Codex Aureus of Echternach).
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Rich man and Lazarus
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The rich man and Lazarus is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. Speaking to his disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus.
Christian views on Hades
…it as "Hades". In all appearances but one, ᾅδης has little if any relation to afterlife rewards or punishments. The one exception is Luke's parable of Lazarus and the rich man, in which the rich man finds himself, after death, in Hades, and "in anguish in this flame", while in contrast the angels take Lazarus to "the bosom…
Detail from the prefatory cycle to the Eadwine Psalter, Morgan Library leaf M.521 (recto), English c. 1160s
Illustration by Gustave Doré of the Rich man and Lazarus.
Illustration of Lazarus at the rich man's gate by Fyodor Bronnikov, 1886.