Which is poured out without mixture.—Different from Babylon’s _mixed_ wine.—Isa. 5:20‐22. Into the cup of His indignation.—“The Lord our God hath put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.”—Jer. 8:14; Isa. 51:17‐20; Jer. 25:26‐28; Rev. 18:6; 16:19; Psa. 60:3; 75:8. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone.—Whoever worships, reverences, human institutions and doctrines more than the Word of the Lord has experienced the torment here specified. Doctrines of hell fire and brimstone have been his portion.—Rev. 9:17‐19. In the presence of the holy angels.—The Harvest workers on this side of the veil.—Matt. 13:39. And in the presence of the Lamb.—“In the days of the Son of Man;” after the Second Advent has taken place. 14:11. And the smoke of their torment.—“A noun, unlike a verb (or ‘time‐ word,’ as the Germans call it), does not indicate time. So ‘the smoke of their torment’ may mean that of pain endured once for all, and then at an end. There is nothing in this verse that necessarily implies an eternity of suffering. In a similar way the word ‘punishment’ or ‘correction’ in Matt. 25:46 gives in itself no indication of time. Cp. Gen. 19:28; Jude 7.” (Weym.) “About _endless torment_: “(a) The doctrine is found nowhere in the Old Testament, nor any hint of it. The expression, in the end of Isaiah, about the fire unquenched and the worms not dying, is plainly of the corpses of men upon the physical earth. “(b) The doctrine of endless torment was, as a historical fact, brought back from Babylon by the Rabbis. “(c) St Paul accepts nothing of it as far as we can tell, never making the least allusion to the doctrine. “(d) The Apocalypse asserts that not only _death_, but _hell_ shall be cast into the Lake of Fire. “(e) The Christian Church has never really held it exclusively till now. “(f) Since the Reformation it has been an open question in the English Church. “(g) The Church of England, by the deliberate expunging of the 42nd Article, which affirmed endless punishment, has declared it, authoritatively, to be open. “(h) It is so, in fact. Neither I nor any others who have denied it can be dispossessed or proceeded against legally, in any way whatsoever.—Rev. Chas. Kingsley, May 9, 1857.”—Z. ’11‐363. Ascendeth up for ever and ever.—“The remembrance of the destruction of these systems of deception and error will be lasting, the lesson will never be forgotten—as smoke, which continues to ascend after a destructive fire, is testimony that the fire has done its work.—See also Isa. 34:8‐10.”—H. 64; Rev. 19:3. And they have no rest day or night.—A literal fulfillment of this is expected. (Rev. 7:3.) A few days of it will be enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of the torment system of religion. And it will be a just recompense of reward.