“And cast the unprofitable servant into our darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matt 25:30)
To lose the talent that had remained idle, was only a small part of the doom of "the unprofitable servant." His lord ordered him to be "cast into outer darkness," and his punishment is indicated by that oft-repeated refrain of our Savior’s revelation of the horrors that await lost souls: "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." If we give any description of the world to come which is at all terrible, we are supposed to have borrowed it from Dante or Milton, but the most awful and harrowing descriptions of hell that ever fell from human lips do not exceed the language of the loving Christ himself. He is the true lover of men who faithfully warns them concerning the eternal woe that awaits the impenitent, while he who paints the miseries of hell as though they were but trifling is seeking to murder men’s souls under the pretense of friendship.
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