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fire and brimstone

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fire and brimstone
n.
1. The punishment of hell.
2. Homiletic rhetoric describing or warning of the punishment of hell.
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Noun1.fire and brimstone - (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of fire and brimstone"
Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
eternal damnation, damnation - the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell


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Now all he had anticipated was come to pass: the Vicar felt the satisfaction of the prophet who saw fire and brimstone consume the city which would not mend its way to his warning.
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod -- and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
``the fiend laughs, they say, when one thief robs another; and we know, that were he to spit fire and brimstone instead, it would never prevent a Templar from following his bent.
 
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