However you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. —Jonathan Edwards What is the denotation of everlasting in this passage?

Forever or eternal

Explanation:

The denotative meaning of a word refers to its literal meaning which is in contrast to its connotative meaning which is a secondary meaning that is derived from making associations with the word.

The literal meaning of everlasting is something that goes on forever or is eternal. When a person is to everlasting destruction, it means that they are to be doomed forever and this is a common theme in Christianity as it is taught that should a person die in sin, they would go to hell forever where they would be doomed and destroyed for all time.

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