Verse 48
48. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched—See on :-; The "unquenchablesness" of this fire has already been brought before us (see on :-); and the awfully vivid idea of an undying worm, everlastingly consuming an unconsumable body, is taken from the closing words of the evangelical prophet ( :-), which seem to have furnished the later Jewish Church with its current phraseology on the subject of future punishment (see LIGHTFOOT).
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