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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 13:42 - 13:42
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And shall cast them into a furnace of fire - rather, “the furnace of fire”:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth - What terrific strength of language - the “casting” or “flinging” expressive of indignation, abhorrence, contempt (compare Psa 9:17; Dan 12:2): “the furnace of fire” denoting the fierceness of the torment: the “wailing” signifying the anguish this causes; while the “gnashing of teeth” is a graphic way of expressing the despair in which its remedilessness issues (see Mat 8:12)!