The Cynic's Word Book

Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not
  synonymous with our
Hell, many of the most respectable men of
  antiquity residing there in
a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the
  Elysian Fields themselves
were a part of Hades, though they have since been
  removed to Paris.
When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was
  in process of
evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the
  work insisted by a
majority vote on translating the Greek word
  "Aides" as "Hell"; but a
conscientious minority member secretly possessed
  himself of the record
and struck out the objectional word wherever he
  could find it. At the
next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking
  over the work, suddenly
sprang to his feet and said with considerable
  excitement: "Gentlemen,
somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years
  afterward the good
prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection
  that he had been the
means (under Providence) of making an important,
  serviceable and
immortal addition to the phraseology of the
  English tongue.