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    Default fire of hell

    Should fire have an s. fire is uncountable?

    I can endure anything, even the fires of hell
    I can endure anything, even the fire of hell

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    Default Re: fire of hell

    There is a long tradition that we refer to 'the fires of Hell'

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    Default Re: fire of hell

    Damnation seems to have a strange effect on singular and plural nouns; we also say that 'the wages of sin is death'.

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