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Definition of Fire and brimstone
1. Noun. (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners. "His sermons were full of fire and brimstone"
Definition of Fire and brimstone
1. Noun. The traditional punishments of Hell. ¹
2. Adjective. Referencing the power or wrath of God. ¹
3. Adjective. (pejorative) Stereotypical descriptive for a charismatic clergyman who stresses the power or wrath of God, literal interpretation of the Bible and traditional punishments of Hell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire And Brimstone
Literary usage of Fire and brimstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"... and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second ..."
2. The Bible in Browning: With Particular Reference to The Ring and the Book by Minnie Gresham Machen (1903)
"G. ... the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. —Rev. 21 : 8. I' the gray
dawn it was I found myself Facing the pillared front o' the Pieve — mine, ..."
3. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1919)
"They were cast into a lake burning with fire and brimstone (Apoc. xix. 20; xx.
14, 15; xxi. 8). Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn ..."
4. A Series of Lecture Sermons: Delivered at the Second Universalist Meeting by Hosea Ballou (1854)
"Our text informs us, that the lake of fire and brimstone is the second death,
and as this death is called " the second death," it evidently refers to a ..."
5. A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt (1892)
"Fire and Brimstone; or, the Destruction of Sodom : A drama by George Lesly.
8v0, 1675, 1684. The First Civil Wars in France: A play by Michael Drayton, ..."
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