Jonathan Edwards’s "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Question 5 • AL-English Language Arts 11 Critical Standards

Which quotation from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" indicates that people have a fragile hold on life?

Answer

Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth; yea, doubtless with many that are now in this congregation . . . than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell.

[T]he pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them, the flames do now rage and glow.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they won't bear their weight, and these places are not seen.

God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell.

Explanation

The quotation in choice C compares unconverted people’s path to a “rotten covering” over hell, with weak places that could give way under their weight. This image suggests that life is precarious and people’s hold on safety is fragile. The other choices describe God’s anger or the fires of hell, rather than emphasizing how easily people could fall into danger.

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