term for the fiery place of judgment to come. But given its rich diversity of meaning, this place-name alone cannot tell us all that we need to know about the nature of the punishment awaiting those who go there. However, Jesus himself supplies additional details concerning punishment in Gehenna, or hell. Jesus says that hell is so terrible that one should avoid it even at the cost of a cherished body part. The loss of one limb in the present is more desirable than the loss of the total self in the