"Cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Matthew 25:30

Our earthly fire, when it burns it shines, it casts a light. 
It has light as well as heat in it. But the fire of hell burns
—but it does not shine, it gives no light at all. It retains 
the property of burning—but it has lost the property of 
shining. Christ calls it "outer darkness," or utter darkness
—that is, darkness beyond a darkness. 

Light is a blessing that shall never shine into that infernal 
prison. In Jude verse 6, you read of "chains of darkness." 
It would be a little ease, a little comfort, to the damned 
in hell—if they might have but light and liberty to walk up 
and down the infernal coasts; but this is too high a favor 
for them to enjoy; and therefore they shall be shackled 
and fettered down in chains of darkness, and in 
blackness of darkness—so that they may fully undergo 
the scorchings and burnings of divine wrath and fury 
forever and ever. 

In Jude verse 13 you thus read, "To whom is reserved 
the blackness of darkness forever." The words signify 
exceeding great darkness. Hell is a very dark and dismal 
region, and extreme are the miseries, horrors, and 
torments which are there. Sinners, when they are in 
hell, when they are in chains of darkness, when they 
are in blackness of darkness—they shall never more 
see light! Hell is a house without light! 

Though our earthly fires have light as well as heat—yet 
the infernal fire has only heat to burn sinners; it has no 
light to refresh sinners; and this will be no small addition 
to their torment. 

"He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and
brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves!"
Colossians 1:13

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