And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
(Luke 16:26) KJV
The great gulf is a translation of the Greek chasma mega (mega chasm) and it only occurs once when Jesus tells the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The passage, Luke 16:19-31, describes a conversation between Lazarus and Abraham who are in sheol, across the great gulf to the rich man who’s in the molten core of the Earth.
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