Kolpos Kolpos The kolpos (Greek: κόλποις κόλπον κόλπῳ, a gulf, bay or creek) is the "blousing" of a peplos, chiton or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs folded over a zone (a narrow girdle). The fabric of the garment was typically cut longer than the shoulder-to-floor measurement of the women or man wearing it. The excess length was dealt with at the waist (creating the kolpos) and optionally the top edge (creating the apoptygma). To create the kolpos, a zone was tied around the body below the breast (high-girdled) or at the waist (low-girdled) and
Christian views on Hell in comfort (in the bosom of Abraham) or in torment. By at least the late rabbinical period, "Gehinnom" was viewed as the place of ultimate punishment, exemplified by the rabbinical statement "the best of physicians are destined to Gehinnom." (M. Kiddushin 4:14); also described in Assumption of Moses and 2 Esdras. The term is derived from "Gei Ben-Hinnom", a valley near Jerusalem originally used as a location for human sacrifices to the idol Moloch: In the Greek Septuagint the Hebrew word "Sheol" was translated as "Hades", the name for the underworld and abode of the dead in Greek mythology. The