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from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godby Jonathan Edwards Feature Menu Introducing the Sermon Literary Focus: Figures of Speech
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godby Jonathan Edwards O Sinner! 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 . . .
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godby Jonathan Edwards Introducing the sermon This is Edwards’s most famous sermon, delivered in 1741. Edwards, like English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), believed that • everything we know comes from experience • understanding and feeling are two distinct kinds of knowledge
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Godby Jonathan Edwards In this fire-and-brimstone sermon, Edwards uses the metaphor of fire to link his listeners’ experience of fire to the idea of burning in the fires of Hell because of their sins. How do you think Edwards would change his sermon if he were preaching today? [End of Section]
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodLiterary Focus: Figures of Speech Figures of speech are words or phrases that compare one thing to another, unlike thing. Edwards uses figures of speech to compare God’s wrath to ordinary, everyday things that his listeners could relate to and understand.
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodLiterary Focus: Figures of Speech Edwards uses personification to focus his audience’s attention. • Hell has a mouth and hands. • God has hands.
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodLiterary Focus: Figures of Speech Edwards uses the metaphor of God as an archer. The flight of an arrow is compared to the swiftness of God’s justice. [End of Section]
