...more pity than a fiend, holding those that had striven for righteousness, as well as the abandoned, 'over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire' and rejoicing, in a manner which would shock the most degenerate human criminal, over the consequences...

...terrifying nature of existence had once again come home, vivid reminder that God may indeed hold us over the pit of hell, "much as one holds a spider or some loathesome insect over the fire-." the core of eternal destruction. They greeted what they saw with...

...thread that any thing hangs by"; or, "the pit hath opened its mouth under them"; or, "the God . . . holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire."83 Both men's language displays a will to power through the use of a transcendent threat. In...

...fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury. . . ." His imagery is diabolical: "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much...some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you. . . ." Millions of people in America attend weekly sermons. These sermons resemble, in significant...

...hear the hysteric wailing of the witches. We see Jonathan Edwards pounding the pulpit and shouting, "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire." It is from this dark and...

...harmony in the ironies of existence. A humorous irony can be found even in the fearful pronouncement that the "God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked." It is the same humorous irony of shouting at one's children to make them quiet. To image the crudest...

...brimstone, hell's wide gaping mouth open, the dangling in mid air and the plunge into the bottomless gulf. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked...'1: a sublime frisson is produced here, but rather as Milton would have implemented it,...

...to stand upon or take hold of. ... It is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you. You have offended him . . . O Sinner! You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath...

...those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much...holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the first, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon...

...Hands of an Angry God," their lives hanging by a thread above the abyss of Hell and eternal judgment. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some other loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you...