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Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched - See on Mat 5:30; The “unquenchablesness” of this fire has already been brought before us (see on Mat 3:12); and the awfully vivid idea of an undying worm, everlastingly consuming an unconsumable body, is taken from the closing words of the evangelical prophet (Isa 66:24), which seem to have furnished the later Jewish Church with its current phraseology on the subject of future punishment (see Lightfoot).