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Not annihilation. For in the case of the lost not only the worm but "their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched"; i.e. both the instrument of punishment, and the object of it, the lost man, die not. Thrice repeated by Christ with awful emphasis (; ; ). (See HELL.) ; ; ; ; ; ; ten "son of perditions"; applied only to him and Judas, marking the like character and destiny of both (; ; Psalm 69; 2 Thessalonians 2; -11); his course is short, from the moment of his manifestation doomed to perdition. (See ANTICHRIST.)