TORMENT
Torment
The noun torment is the translation , in all passages except one, of , a Gr. word found in the NT only in Rev. In 1Jn 4:18 is so translation in Authorized Version (Revised Version punishment). The cognate verb is rendered torment in four out of six passages, the exceptions being Rev 12:2 (Authorized Version pained, Revised Version in pain) and 2Pe 2:8 (Authorized Version and Revised Version vexed). In Authorized Version is in one of the two cases of its occurrence rendered torment (Heb 11:37 : Revised Version evil entreat). In 4 Ezr. torment is the rendering of cruciamentum in 9:9, 13:38 (Authorized Version and Revised Version ), of cruciatus in 7:67 (Revised Version ), of tormentum in 7:36, 38 (Revised Version ), of supplicium in 7:66, 80, 84, 86 (Revised Version ), of cruciamentum in 9:12 (Revised Version ; Authorized Version pain). Cruciare is translation torment in 13:38 (Authorized Version and Revised Version ) and torquere in 5:34 (Revised Version ).
Torment is physical, or mental, or both. Of mental torment we have instances in 2Pe 2:8, where Lot is said to have vexed (Revised Version margin tormented) his soul with the lawless deeds of his neighbours; in Rev 11:10 : These two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth; in 4 Ezr 5:34 : My reins torment (torquent) me every hour while I labour to comprehend the way of the Most High; and in 7:64: By reason of this we are tormented (cruciamur), because we perish and know it.
Of physical torment in this life we have a few instances. In one passage the pangs of childbirth are likened to torment. The woman arrayed as the sun was travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered ( , Rev 12:2). Such men as have not the seal of God on their forehead are tormented by the scorpions five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man (Rev 9:5). Of scorpions G. E. Post says (Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) , s.v.), Their sting is very painful, frequently causing a night of agony, which nothing but a large dose of morphine will assuage. The torments of Babylon the Great consist of plagues, death, mourning, famine, and burning with fire (Rev 18:7 f.), especially the last (Rev 18:10; Rev 18:15) The heroes of Israel were tormented (Heb 11:37, Revised Version evil entreated).
To torments after death we have fairly numerous references in Revelation , 4 Ezra. Those who worship the Beast and his image shall be tormented with fire and brimstone; and the smoke of their torment shall ascend for ever and ever, there being no rest for them day or night (Rev 14:9-11). A similar punishment awaits the devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet, who, after being cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever (Rev 20:10). Those who have cast away despitefully the ways of God shall dwell in torments (4 Ezr 9:9). Those who have scorned Gods law must know it (or Him) after death by torment (9:12). The Messiah shall show the evil multitude the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened unto a flame (13:38). It is better with beasts than with men, for they know not of torments promised them after death (7:66). Fire and torments await the wicked (7:38). The apostates shall be tormented (7:72). The torments begin in the Intermediate Abode (7:75, 80, 86, 99), and are increased after the Final Judgment (7:36, 38, 84). The pit of torment is synonymous with the furnace of hell (7:36). Other instances of future torment are found in 2 Bar 36:10 f., 51:6, 52:3, 54:14f., 55:2, 7, 56:13, 59:2, 11, 78:6, 83:8, 85:9.
Literature.-R. H. Charles, The Apocalypse of Baruch, London, 1896; P. Volz, Jdische Eschatologie, Tbingen, 1903, 39; Libri Apocryphi Veteris Testamenti, ed. O. F. Fritzsche, Leipzig, 1871; Dict. of Christ and the Gospels , s.v. Torment.
William Watson.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Torment
Gr. basanos (Matt. 4:24), the “touch-stone” of justice; hence inquisition by torture, and then any disease which racks and tortures the limbs.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Torment
TORMENT.The literal and figurative references to suffering in the Gospels are to be distinguished.
1. In the natural sense of pain caused by disease the words and are used (Mat 4:24; Mat 8:6); also, of evil spirits anticipating Christs displeasure (Mat 8:29 ||). Similarly, the use of the word tormentors () by Christ (Mat 18:34) must be taken as a reflexion of well-known severities of the time; cf. cut him asunder (with scourging) in Mat 24:51. It has not been an infrequent occurrence that cruelties have been inflicted on prisoners with a view to inducing their friends to raise the sum of money demanded for their release.
2. The one example of the figurative use of the word in the Gospels is in the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luk 16:23-28 , torment; , to be tormented). Christ addressed the startling language of this parable to men who were hurting their souls by covetousness. To pierce the hard crust of complacency born of wealth He used the heaviest strokes of threatening; and, choosing language that was most fitted to cause a smart to the softness of their luxury, He spoke of torture, agony, and fire. Ethical truth has always to be expressed in terms of physical sensibility, and these were things His hearers could understand. Christ read off to them in vivid words what their vision was too dull to see,the penalties attached to their sin by the law that Justice founded and eternal Love.
T. Gregory.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
TORMENT
of the wicked
Luk 16:23; Rev 14:11; Rev 16:10; Rev 18:10; Rev 20:10
–SEE Fire, FUTURE STATE OF THE WICKED
Hell, FUTURE STATE OF THE WICKED
& FUTURE STATE OF THE WICKED
& HELL
& HELL
Gnashing of Teeth, TEETH GNASHING OF
& TEETH GNASHING OF
The Wicked, WICKED