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Letter "B" » brimstone
«The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.»
Author: William Cobbett
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Christianity,
Religion
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«Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; / And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.»
«And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.»
«But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, / The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: / And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
beast, brimstone, day-and-night, deceived, False Prophet, fire and brimstone, lake, Lake of, prophet, The Beast, the lake of fire, tormented
«And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
beast, brimstone, cast, deceived, False Prophet, fire and brimstone, lake, Lake of, prophet, received, The Beast, the lake of fire, The Mark, The Mark of, worshipped, wrought
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.»
«Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.»
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