he smoke of the pit
(Apoc. 9:2).

Out of the mouth of the horses went forth fire and smoke
and brimstone; by these was the third part of men killed,
by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone (Apoc.
4:17, 18).

If any one adores the beast he shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God mixed with unmixed wine in the cup of His
anger, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
(Apoc. 16:9, 10).

The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it
was given unto it to scorch men with fire; therefore men
were scorched with great heat (Apoc. 16:8, 9).

They were cast into a lake burning with fire and brimstone
(Apoc. 19:20; 20:14, 15; 21:8).

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be
hewn down and cast into the fire (Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9).

The Son of man shall send His angels, and they shall
gather out of His kingdom all things that cause stumbling
and them that do iniquity, and shall cast them into a
furnace of fire (Matt. 13:41, 42, 50).

The King shall say to them that are on the left hand,
Depart from Me, ye cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41).

They shall be sent into everlasting fire, into the hell of
fire, where their worm shall not die, and the fire shall
not be quenched (Matt. 18:8, 9; Mark 9:43-49).

The rich man in hell said to Abraham that he was tormented
in flame (Luke 16:24).

In these and in many other passages "fire" means the lust pertaining
to love of self and love of the world, and the "smoke" therefrom
means falsity from evil.

571. As the lust of doing the evils that are from the love of self
and of the world is meant by "infernal fire," and as such is the lust
of all in the hells (as shown in the foregoing chapter) so when the
hells are opened there is an appearance of fire with smoke, such as
is seen in conflagrations, a dense fire from the hells where the love
of self prevails, and a flaming fire from the hells where love of the
world prevails. But when the hells are closed this fiery appearance
is not seen, but in its place there is a kind of obscurity like a
condensation of smoke; although the fire still rages within, as can
be seen by the heat exhaling therefrom, which is like the heat from
the burnt ruins after a fire, and in some places like the heat from a
heated fu