authority: he says they were those ‘for whom blackest darkness has been reserved for ever’ (Jude 13). The Bible gives no explanation of what this ‘darkness’ means, but as ‘God is light’ (1 John 1:5) and as darkness is the opposite of light, the description could not possibly be more negative. What is significant is that Jesus did not describe hell as ‘darkness’ but as ‘the darkness’, as if to emphasize that it will be infinitely worse than any physical, moral, mental or spiritual darkness ever experienced