ask, None of us can sojourn with the temporal punishment of consuming fire; surely then none of us can sojourn with those places of burning that are of eternity.” If this is the force of the questions it teaches that the temporal judgments of God should prepare and warn of the eternal punishments to follow. Temporal judgments should lead us to repentance. Woe to us if they do not do so. 15 Isaiah himself now gives an answer to the question of the sinners, and this answer he frames very largely in