everlasting fire
Example Sentences
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It was the crypta or sacred place, where of old the everlasting fire was preserved.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
Like spectral lamps, that burn before a tomb, The ancient lights expire; I wave a torch, that floods the lessening gloom With everlasting fire!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
He said; and rose the echo round "In everlasting fire!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
Archdeacon Farrar, for instance, in despite of common sense and etymology, contends that "everlasting" fire only means "eternal" fire.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Luther said of him that he had gone to everlasting fire, though he would have wished him life and conversion.
From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius
