while they turned to and fro in that punishment, and worms like
great black clouds afflicted them. And the souls of those who had
been murdered said, as they stood and looked upon the punishment of
their murderers, O God, just is thy judgment.

And other men and women were aflame up to the middle, and were cast
into a dark place and were beaten by evil spirits, and their inwards
were eaten by restless worms. These were they who persecuted the
righteous and delivered them up to the authorities.

And over against these were other men and women gnawing their
tongues and having flaming fire in their mouths. These were false
witnesses.

And in a certain other place there were pebbles sharper than swords
or any needle, red hot, and women and men in tattered and filthy
raiment, rolled about on them in punishment. These were the rich who
trusted in their riches and had no pity for orphans and widows and
despised the commandment of God.

And in another great lake full of boiling pitch and blood and mire
stood men and women up to their knees. These were the usurers and
those who take compound interest.

The noted preacher, scholar and president of Princeton College, Jonathan
Edwards, in his famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,"
put in forcible and picturesque language the religious and legal view of
punishment as vengeance:

They [sinners] deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice