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Gaping has a strong connotation to living things, which makes hell seem like a living creature to the audience.; The word gaping helps build the image of hell as a mouth that will swallow the audience up if they don’t do as Edwards says.; Gaping’s connotation of swallowing makes the image more frightening, which makes it more persuasive to his audience.

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

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