Mar 9:44<\/span>; Mar 9:46<\/span>; Mar 9:48<\/span><\/p>\n Where their worm dieth not.<\/em><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n The punishment of the wicked, dreadful and interminable<\/strong><\/p>\n Some will say that this doctrine has no tendency to do good; it is idle to think of frightening men into religion. It is my duty not to decide what doctrines are likely to do good, but to preach such as I find in the Scriptures. I dare not pretend to be either more wise or more compassionate than our Saviour; and He thought it consistent, both with wisdom and compassion, to utter the words of our text. These expressions allude to the manner in which the Jews disposed of the bodies of the dead; placed in tombs they were consumed by worms; or on a funeral pile it was consumed by fire. You have seen this, but there is another death, of the soul. Those who die this death shall be preyed upon by worms which will never die, and become the fuel of a fire that will never be quenched. The language is indeed figurative, but not on that account less full of meaning.<\/p>\n I. <\/strong>In dilating upon these truths, I shall say little of the corporeal sufferings which await impenitent sinners beyond the grave. Such sufferings will certainly compose a part of the punishment; for their bodies shall come forth in the resurrection of damnation; as it is the servant of the soul, its tempter to many sins, and its instrument in committing them, there seems to be a manifest propriety in making them companions in punishment. But to the sufferings of the soul, the Scriptures chiefly refer. The clause-where their worm dieth not-intimates that the soul will suffer miseries, analogous to those which would be inflicted on a living body, by a multitude of reptiles constantly preying upon it; that as a dead body appears to produce the worms which consume it, so the soul dead in trespasses and sins, really produces the causes of its own misery. What are those causes, what is the gnawing worm?<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>its own passions and desires. That these are capable of preying upon the soul, and occasioning acute suffering, even in this life, need not be proved. Look at a man who is habitually peevish, fretful, and disappointed. Has he not gnawing worms already at his heart? Look at the envious, covetous, ambitious, proud; these passions make men miserable here; even while in this world there are many things calculated to soothe or divert mens passions. Sometimes they meet with success, and this produces a transient calm; at another time, the objects which excite their passions are absent, and this allows quietness. Men have not always the leisure to indulge their passions; they are under the operations of causes which tend to restrain them, such as sleep. But suppose all these removed, deprived of sleep, success, and the objects which excite his strongest passions constantly before him, and all restraints gone. Would not such a man be miserable? Nothing inflames the passions of men more than suffering.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The gnawing worm includes the consciences of sinners. Conscience has inflicted terrible agony, as in the case of Judas. Here she speaks only at intervals; there without intermission. Here she may be stifled by scenes of business or amusement, sophistical arguments; but there will be no means of silencing her; she will see everything in the clear light of eternity. What a God she has offended, Saviour neglected, heaven lost. Well may this be compared to a gnawing worm.<\/p>\n II. <\/strong>Our Saviour speaks not only of a gnawing worm, but of an unquenchable fire. So far as the soul is concerned, this refers to a keen and constant sense of Gods presence and righteous displeasure. He says of Himself, I am a consuming fire.<\/p>\n III. <\/strong>We learn from the passage before us, that those sufferings will be endless. Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. The passions and consciences of sinners endure as long as the soul of which they are a part. God lives forever, He must forever be displeased with sinners. It is impossible that I should deserve it. You know nothing of your sins, or of what sin deserves. As well might a man, who should put vipers into his bosom, complain of God because they stung him. Christ died to save them from their misery. (E. Payson, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Preserving fire<\/strong><\/p>\n Preserving fire, or salting with fire. Decay is a species of burning; and only those things that have been burnt, or cannot be burnt, will not decay.<\/p>\n I. <\/strong>Temptation is a preserving fire. The boy who has been sheltered at home is honest; but his integrity is not as firm as that of the honest merchant. The clay (Isa 64:8<\/span>) is soft and plastic; but after it has been burnt in the furnace it will break before it will bend. All must pass through the fire of temptation. If you are to be a vessel of honour fit for the heavenly palace, the Lord must be your potter.<\/p>\n II. <\/strong>Affliction is a preserving fire. The metal comes forth from the furnace more useful (Mal 3:3<\/span>).<\/p>\n III. <\/strong>The day of judgment is also compared to a fire (1Co 3:13<\/span>). Fire is a searching test. All paint, enamel, pretence of every kind, will melt before it. Its results are enduring. All must pass through the fiery ordeal. Only such works can stand as proceed from gospel love.<\/p>\n IV. <\/strong>Another preserving fire is the fire of hell. The misery of hell is two fold: sin and its punishment. (J. B. Converse.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Their worm dieth not-Conscience in hell<\/strong><\/p>\n It has been discovered that there are worms which eat and live upon stone. Many such have been found in a freestone wall in Normandy. So there is a worm in hell-conscience-which lives upon the stony heart of the condemned sinner, which gnaws with remorse all whom grace has not softened.<\/p>\n Verse 46. See Clarke on <\/span>Mr 9:43<\/span><\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.<\/strong> The Persic version renders it, “because from thence there can be no deliverance”: which is rather an interpretation of these figurative expressions, and is a good one; since they design the eternity of hell torments, as well as point at the anguish and misery of them.<\/p>\n See on 44<\/span> <\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “Where their worm dieth not,”<\/strong> (omitted from the better Gk. manuscripts) though the idea is clearly set forth in this story and in the Scriptures, as a whole.<\/p>\n 2) “And the fire is not quenched.” <\/strong>The term “worm dieth not” appears to refer to the unsettled conscience, the monitor of the soul of every man, that in torments of memory and self-accusation in hell, will never rest, after God orders “remember” or start recalling your wicked choices and deeds. As maggots in the Gehenna fire refuse of the fires of the Gehenna Valley never stopped wiggling, so will wicked consciences never rest, Luk 16:25<\/span>.<\/p>\n 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 46. Where their worm dieth not<\/strong> ] i.e.<\/em> Where there is eternity of extremity. Of all outward torments none more insufferable than that by fire; as of all inward, none like that of having worms ever grubbing and gnawing upon the entrails. Add hereunto, that worms and fire use to make an end of other things; not so here. The fire fails not, as did that fire in the valley of Hinnom, wherein the dead carcases were burnt without Jerusalem, Jer 19:6<\/span> ; The worm dies not, as do those worms that swarm in sepulchres. Oh, the terrors and torments, the fathomless perdition, the remediless misery into which the damned are plunged, without the least hope of ever either mending or ending! Plato travelling into Egypt together with Euripides the tragedian, got much Hebrew learning; he calleth hell , a fiery lake, and saith that there their worm dieth not, their fire is not quenched. (Phaed. p. 400.) This he might have from Isa 66:24<\/span> , though it be his practice, lacte gypsum miscere, <\/em> as Irenaeus spake, to stain the pure streams of divine truths with fabulous narrations. <\/p>\n Luk 16:24-26 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 42:21 – they said Mat 25:46 – everlasting Mar 9:44 – their Mar 9:48 – General Luk 16:25 – remember<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Worm dieth not is explained at verse 44.<\/p>\n Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Mar 9:44; Mar 9:46; Mar 9:48 Where their worm dieth not. – The punishment of the wicked, dreadful and interminable Some will say that this doctrine has no tendency to do good; it is idle to think of frightening men into religion. 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