for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."+ Here again some may say the fire is figurative. Turn to Matt. 13:30, 41, 42, we read these words: +"Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to barn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."+ Now here is a parable and we have figures and there would be warrant, if this were all that we had, for saying that the fire was figurative, as other things in the verse are figurative; but in the 41st and 42nd verses of the same chapter we read, +"The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and they that do iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth."+ Here we have _the interpretation_ of the parable. Now in parables, as already said, we have figures, but in the interpretation of parables we have the literal facts which the figures represent, but we see clearly that here _in the interpretation as well as in the parable_, we have _fire_. Everything else in the parable is explained, every item in the parable except the fire, but that remains fire in the interpretation of the parable as well as in the parable itself. We find the same thing in another parable in verses 47 to 50, the parable of the net cast into the sea. Here, also, in the interpretation of the parable as well as in the parable itself we have _fire_. Every other figure of the parable is explained by the literal fact that it represents, but _in the interpretation_ of the parable we have "_fire_." In the light of these facts we cannot deny the literal fire of hell without doing violence to every reasonable law of interpretation. Furthermore still, we read in Rev. 20:15 that at the judgment of the great white throne, +"and if any was not found written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire."+ There is nothing in the whole context that suggests a figure. And in the 21st chapter and the 8th verse we read: +"But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death."+