θανάτου

Detailed Definition

• 1the death of the body
• 2that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
• 3the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
• 4with the implied idea of future misery in hell
• 5metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
• 6since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness i.e., figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin
• 7the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
• 8in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to god and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell