
I then went to another place, even worse than the last. There, I saw something terrifying: a massive fire burning and blazing. The ground was split open all the way down to the depths, filled with huge columns of fire descending. I couldn't see how far it stretched or how big it was, and I couldn't even guess.
And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture.