The chefs end up looking like demons stoking the fires of hell.
Yet, long after the fires of Hell have burned themselves out, the debate about the Divina Commedia rages on.
Sermons in Salafist-controlled mosques have commanded the faithful to vote for Nour candidates or face the fires of hell.
One bystander likened it to "trying to put out the fires of hell with a garden hose".
Anticipating the doctrine of purgatory, the postbiblical apocalypses suggest that penitents may be purified by the same fires of hell in which the reprobate sink to their doom.
"We are saving them from the fires of hell," said Mian Shaman, a frail man in his 70s with a mottled complexion and a wavering voice.
The comic book version (yes, there is one, drawn by P. Craig Russell (Eclipse, 1990) is spectacular, with "real" fires of Hell.
Boxing Day, we would call it, but in Lagos it was an inferno, the fires of hell risen to earth in the densely peopled district of Abule Egba.
When a curb crisis disrupts Daniel's fragile equilibrium, he churns with the fires of hell, but "propriety" keeps him outwardly composed.
It is a full-length portrait of the artist, in shirt and suit black as the hero's heart and shoes red as the fires of hell.
Dr. Ferguson said Mrs. Yates had told her that she killed her children to save them from the fires of hell.
