Mark 9:46
Mark 9:46 Meaning and Explanation
“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”
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Read Full Chapter →Again the refrain sounds: their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.
What Does Mark 9:46 Mean?
Mark sounds the refrain of Isaiah 66:24 a second time, after the word about the foot, like a bell tolled between each call to radical self-denial.
Scripture repeats what we are prone to shrug off. The doubled warning gives the hearer no room to soften it, and the insistence is itself love: the most tender voice in the Gospels is the one that warns most plainly. He says it again so that we will stop, reckon, and choose life.
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What does Mark 9:46 mean?
Again the refrain sounds: their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.