"It is certainly curious also that so many Christians are able to recognise that the language of scripture is full of metaphor, on just about every page, and yet fail to notice that, when it comes to descriptions of the world to come, there are NO non-metaphorical images at all."

"We can see that the ovens are METAPHORS, and the wheat and the chaff, and the angelic harvest, and the barred doors, and the debtors’ prisons; so why do we not also recognise that the deathless worm and the inextinguishable fire and all other such images are themselves...

mere FIGURAL devices within the embrace of an extravagant APOCALYPTIC IMAGERY that, in itself, has NO strictly LITERAL elements? How did some images become mere images in the general Christian imagination while others became exact documentary portraits of some final reality?"