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Gaping means ""wide open."" Why is this word so effective in conveying Edwards’s purpose to his audience?

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The word gaping helps to create the impression of hell like a mouth that swallows the public if they do not do as Edward says

EXPLANATION:

  • Edwards creates a terrible image of hell to non-Christians, because they have not committed themselves to God. There is the terrible glow of the flames of God's wrath in the text it cites; there is the big, gullible mouth of the flames.
  • Edwards warns the non-Christians that God is willing to punish them for their non-existent faith in him and that hell is ready to accept them, just as God is willing to punish them.
  • This quote is also used to threaten non-Christians to convert, because it paints a disturbing picture of hell. These ideas help show that Christians are powerful in the higher tone of the passage and that God has mercy upon them while the non-Christians vex him and will greatly punish them.

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