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bengelMark 9:44: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
Mark 9:44 ; Mark 9:46 ; Mark 9:48 . Ὁποῦ , where ) A most weighty repetition. The allusion is to the carcases, which are the food either of worms, or of the funeral pile. The worm expresses corruption; but this corruption is eternal, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 .— σκώληξ , the worm ) Of the soul.— αὐτῶν , their ) It is not expressed in Mark to what this word is to be referred. Therefore it is a quotation from Isaiah.[8]— οὐ τελευτᾷ…
ellicottMark 9:44: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
(44) Where their worm dieth not. —The words are taken almost literatim from the closing verse of Isaiah ( Isaiah 66:24 ), where they appear as part of the description of the triumph of Jehovah. The true worshippers should serve in His Temple continually, and they should go forth and see the carcases of the transgressors, “for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to a…
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