Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 14:11
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Revelation14:11
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever ; And they have no rest day nor night , who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name .
That is, their Torments shall be everlasting, as well as most exquisite, and causing the most acute Pain.
This is but the same thing in other words: their Torments shall be such as shall give them no rest at any time.
The Sense of these two Verses, is no more than this, That all Idolaters shall fall under the Vengeance of God in this Life, and at last shall be thrown to Hell▪ not only such as worship the Beast, committing Paganish Idolatry, worshipping Stocks and Stones, and Devils, as the term of their Worship, but such as worship the Image of that Beast set up by Antichrist, worshipping of Angels and Saints, or their Images. From hence an easie Answer may be given to that Question; Whether a Man can be saved in that which at this day is called the Roman Catholick Religion? If they either worship the Beast, or the Image of the Beast, they cannot: whether they do or no, let the Reader judge from what hath been before-said.
Marginal references: Isa. 34.10. Chap. 19.3.
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