Jonathan Edwards introduces two comparisons for God's wrath in paragraphs 2 and 5. Describe what is being compared in each.paragraph's 2 and 5 in...

Most of the versions of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" are excerpts from the much longer sermon which, according to eywitnesses, lasted about two hours. In the version I use ( from McGraw-Hill, American Literature, a Chronological Approach, pgs. 54-55) the second paragraph contains an extended metaphor comparing God's anger to a bow that is armed with an arrow pointed directly at the heart of a sinner:

"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string and justice bends the arrow at your heart."

Paragraph 5 is again an extended metaphor comparing the sinner to a spider who is being held over the fires of hell by an angry God. Edwards describes how much God abhors them and much they deserve to be dropped down into hell. Edwards writes,

"The God that hold you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider. . . Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason shy you do not this very moment drop down into hell."