_Remark._--Before proceeding further, let us give the native signification of the words Tartarus, Infernus and Hell. [Greek: Tartaros, ou], dark and deep place: [Greek: Tartara gains], [in Hesiode,] abysses of the earth. The word [Greek: Tartaros] has been adopted and kept in the Latin, though with the change of the final [Greek: os] into _us_, Tartarus, and its native meaning preserved. The Latin word Infernus derives from the word inferior, which signifies a place under, below an other, a cavity, a profundity. The words Tartarus, Infernus, have been kept in French, Tartare, Enfer; in Spanish, Tartaro, Infierno; and also in the other languages derived from the Latin. The English word _hell_ is the genitive case of the Anglo-Saxon word _hole_, [See Webster's Dictionary,] which means a cavity, a profundity. The word Tartarus has been kept from the Latin, with its native signification. In Greek [Greek: Tartaros] has a plural, as seen before. In Latin _Tartarus_ has a plural, _Tartari_; so _Infernus_, _Inferi_. In French _Tartare_ has a plural, _Tartares_; so, _Enfer_, _Enfers_. In Spanish _Tartaro_ has a plural, _Tartaros_; so, _Infierno_, _Infiernos_. Now we continue the comparison that we have commenced between the Infernus of the Pagans and the Infernus, or Hell, of the Church of Rome. We will use the word Hell, to express the Tartarus, or Infernus, of both the Pagans and the Church of Rome. The Pagans believed that there was a gate to their hell; so the Church of Rome believes that there is a gate to the hell of the Christians. The Pagans believed that the frightful Tisiphon watched day and night at the gate of their hell; so the Church of Rome believes that Lucifer holds the keys of the gate of hell, as St. Peter holds the keys of Paradise. The Pagans believed that the deepest darkness reigned in their hell; so the Church of Rome believes that the deepest darkness reigns in the hell of the Christians. The Pagans believed that, in their hell, the Phlegeton river rolled huge stones on fire, burning the wicked without consuming them; so the Church of Rome believed, and still believes, [even now it is an article of faith which must be believed under the penalty of excommunication, of being a heretic, and thereby of infallibly going to hell,] that, in the hell of the Christians, the wicked are plunged into a corporeal, or material, fire of sulphur, and of brimstone. St. Augustine, in his work De Civitate Dei, Liber 21, Capitulum 10, writes: "_Gehenna illa, quod etiam stagnum ignis et sulphuris dictum est, corporeus ignis erit._" [Translation.--"That Gehenna, which is said to be a marsh of fire and of sulphur, will be a corporeal fire."]