10. that deceived--Greek, "that deceiveth."
lake of fire--his final doom: as "the bottomless pit"
(Re 20:1)
was his temporary prison.
where--so Coptic. But A, B, Vulgate, and
Syriac read, "where also."
the beast and the false prophet are--
(Re 19:20).
day and night--figurative for without intermission
(Re 22:5),
such as now is caused by night interposing between day and day. The
same phrase is used of the external state of the blessed
(Re 4:8).
As the bliss of these is eternal, so the woe of Satan and the lost must
be. As the beast and the false prophet led the former conspiracy
against Christ and His people, so Satan in person heads the last
conspiracy. Satan shall not be permitted to enter this Paradise
regained, to show the perfect security of believers, unlike the first
Adam whom Satan succeeded in robbing of Paradise; and shall, like
Pharaoh at the Rod Sea, receive in this last attempt his final doom.
for ever and ever--Greek, "to the ages of the ages."
JFB.
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