poured unmixed into the cup of God’s anger, and … be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb” (14:10). The severity in this depiction is undeniable, and it is aggravated by duration. The text says that “the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever” (14:11). Frilingos chills at the violence, as do others, and he chills even more when he looks beyond the carnage itself. The spectacle, he notes, plays out under the gaze of the Lamb. As