And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Ver. 50. And shall cast them into the furnace] An exquisite torment is hereby deciphered. This our Saviour had said in the same words but a little afore, Matthew 13:42. he here repeats it that men may the better observe it. And would to God, saith Chrysostom, that men would every day and everywhere discourse on hell torments, that they would take a turn in hell ever and anon by their meditations. Certainly did men believe the torments of hell, that weeping for extremity of heat, and that gnashing of teeth that's there for extremity of cold they durst not but be more innocent; they would never offer to fetch profits or pleasure out of those flames. It was a speech of Gregory Nyssen, He that doth but hear of hell is without any further labour or study taken off from sinful pleasures: thus he then. But, alas, men's hearts are grown harder today; they can hear of hell, and be no more moved than they are to handle a painted toad.