Where their worm dieth not] Isaiah 66:24. Literally, the worm is the maggot bred in putrefying substances (Exodus 16:20; Isaiah 14:11; Acts 12:23). Figuratively it stands for the moral corruption and degradation which follow upon a long course of wilful sin, and ultimately issue in eternal death. The lost soul, being at length hopelessly corrupt, and loathsome even to itself, has its own hell within it.

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