What would be a metaphor that is used for h**l in this passage? thanks so much!!?

Question

"Consider the fearful danger you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in h**l. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you.... The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor."

Answer 1

it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath

Answer 2

it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath,

Easy.

Answer 3

I think it's the "great furnace of wrath," because clearly you cannot put wrath into a furnace.  But if you could...it would be h**l! :)

Answer 4

I would say there are two:  "a great furnace of wrath" and "a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath".  It's possible that this would be seen as a single thing at the time it was written.

Answer 5

oooh sounds like edwards to me. choose any phrase from, it is a great furnace.....fire of wrath

Answer 6

great furnace of wrath

Answer 7

furnace of wrath